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The New Mythology

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BYRAM CAMPBELL

THE NEW MYTHOLOGY OT RACIAL EQUALITY

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The New Mythology

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Racial Equality

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The New Mythology
of Racial Equality

Before we start seeing the world we should gain some
knowledge of the ideas that are throwing it into a ferment;
otherwise, its lands emerge in half lights. For better
orientation let us look backward to the early part of our
century.

Lothrop Stoddard in the preface to his book The Rising
Tide of Color (1920) came to the conclusion that since
other values depend on the quality of life Americans
would wisely act to protect this value. Neither Stoddard
nor the many who agreed with him foresaw the psychotic
forces that would arise dedicated to destroying the moral
man's values as well as our racial heritage. Because of
the acceptance of the new beliefs the changes that have
occurred are opposite to those forecast by Stoddard.

The ideas which we have mentioned have become
incorporated in a mystique. This we name The New
Mythology.

Unless we can gain a knowledge of how this mystique
has arisen we shall be handicapped in combating it. Even
if given the facts most men do not accept them, for they
are usually adequately prepared only to understand other
normal men. Fortunately we can call on a great philoso-
pher for help.

William James in Pragmatism (1907) called attention
to a group to which he gave the name, monists or as we
shall define this term, those dominated by an irrational
faith in ideas based on oneness. He brought out the fact
that they are subjective thinkers, ruled by their tempera-
ments. In addition to their mania for oneness they have
other characteristics, one of which is of extreme impor-
tance in understanding them. For this quality James
coined the term tender-minded.

I would judge from James' general position that he held
extreme monists to be mainly the product of inborn

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qualities, though he does not clearly so state. Let us be
specific. We now know that individuals are born with
a temperament fashioned by nature, being a part of their
genetic makeup. The monist inherits his qualities.

The normal people who are free from the monist's
mania for reducing everything to oneness, we shall name
pluralists.

James, unlike Stoddard, was not trying to catch a
glimpse of the future; and this being the case we could
not expect him to foreshadow the phenomenal impact
that tender-minded monists have had on our age. There-
fore, let us take up where James left off.

Having noticed that radicals are inordinately occupied
with "unity"; that they, like Communists, reject the in-
dividual in favor of social totality, I at first, while trying
to describe them, referred to them as "unity-minded". I
later discovered the term, monist, and employed it; and
still later, James' work. While James had been interested
in monists as they react on religion, my interest in them
had been confined to their attempts to change the social
system.

Much water has gone over the dam since James' day.
Many monists, particularly radicals, have followed the
leadership of Marx and dropped their interest in religion
in favor of interest in society. But how could they impose
oneness and inevitability (the latter demand of the monist's
nature about which James failed to remark), on society?
Marx, with his elaborate rationalizations, satisfied them;
hence, his popularity.

Marx insisted on a "classless society", a society made
into one, without divisions. Other monists had invented
this idea but Marx appropriated it, and as far as I know
was the first to "discover" that this would be the "inevita-
ble" outcome of the social adventure.

We could write a volume exhibiting the radical's pre-
occupation with social theories based on oneness; but,
other than evidence of this mania, it would be worthless.
Fortunately we can call on a "shorthand" method which

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will be adequate for our present purpose. We shall simply
name the terms which radicals constantly employ and
around which their theories are built. But this will call
for a slight step backward in time.

Radicals in the last few years have been subjected to
considerable criticism of their beliefs and have become
more cautious in their theoretical expression. So let us
start with the mid-fifties, and work back. We then find
an unlimited number of their endorsements of "unity",
"one world", "the oneness of humanity". Their propa-
ganda was responsible for giving the term isolationist an
evil connotation. They objected that it is negative, and
adverse to international togetherness: in short, opposed
to their mania for One World. "Integration", still the
subject of active promotion, has their strong support.
This term may be defined as: "to make whole or complete
by bringing together parts" — a conception which the
reader will realize arouses the basic drives of the born
monist. Monists were becoming intoxicated with a belief
in "togetherness" until it was properly shown that this
could only be established on the basis of the lowest
common denominator. This psychotic group has been
fascinated with dreams of the world ruled from one center.
Monists promoted the League of Nations and, on its fail-
ure, the United Nations. In the case of the latter, they
succeeded in having their tender-minded outlook incorpo-
rated in its charter.

Most Humanists accept the New Mythology. The true
humanism works for the betterment of mankind; present-
day Humanists work in the opposite direction, as we shall
now prove.

The basic principles of biological progress — on which
all progress ultimately rests, as stated or implied by
Stoddard — are differentiation and to some extent elimina-
tion, though this may be gradual and painless. The
monistic Humanist is opposed to both principles. Differ-
entiation negates his sense of oneness and therefore to
him is intolerable; elimination profoundly shocks his tender

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mind. The proper name for today's Humanists is " animal-
is ts". They promote causes that lead to the perpetuation
of the lower forms of humanity — those nearest the lower
animals.

The monist is not only tender-minded by nature; he
is also a misfit. He is apt therefore to develop a morbid
interest in other misfits of whatever kind and wherever
found, and shielding them from the hard facts of life may
become his supreme concern. A major aim in the One
World which he dreams about is to make life comfortable
and pleasant for misfit groups. In his zealous efforts, he
overlooks racial differences.

Though we believe that we can discover inconsistencies
in the monist's hope for One World filled with happy
misfits made economically and psychologically comforta-
ble, while normal men are enslaved by these ends, we
shall not stress the point; that is, not now.

The New Mythology shares some ideas with Commu-
nism. At the same time there are differences. The repudia-
tion of human biology is a sideline with the Communists;
it has become a major project for promoters of the New
Mythology — which in its baser forms we shall from now
on refer to as animalism.

Aristotle came to the conclusion that man is a social
animal. Most modern men apparently agree with Aristotle
and take it for granted that the future of Humanity
is interwoven with the fate of civilization, which in its turn
may be looked on as a great complex the totality of which
has a different worth in different lands. It will be our
purpose to pass judgments on the worth of the civilizations
we visit.

Though a troubled world lies before us, we pluralists
refuse to see it only in this light. We also wish to see its
beauties, savor its richness, and explore its strangeness.

Since the rejection of the word Caucasian by many
anthropologists has played into the hands of the promoters
of the New Mythology, we shall reinstate it. The term
Aryan we shall employ where tradition suggests this, as in

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India, though we consider it synonymous with Caucasian.
By racist we mean anyone who accepts the fact, opposed
by followers of the New Mythology, that significant differ-
ences exist in races. Though the term Mohammedanism
is not acceptable to the followers of Islam, we shall for
convenience employ it, though we may also refer to this
group as Moslems, wherever, as in India, such is the
practice.

In view of the fact that radicals have appropriated the
term liberal, we shall not use it. Herbert Spencer, in 1884,
gave the proper definition of a liberal as: "One who
advocates freedom from constraint, especially in political
institutions." We shall therefore refer to those who would
destroy individualism in favor of centralized power as
radicals, or as "priests" of the still unrecognized lay reli-
gion which we have named The New Mythology.

A VISIT TO SPAIN

We left New York City late the evening of January 28,
1961, headed southeastward, towards the lands of the most
ancient civilizations. Some twenty-four hours later we en-
countered a heavy sea. The next day a wind, carrying
great clouds, pursued us from out of the west, while white
caps, in bursts of foam, danced to the horizon.

Our first landing was at Las Palmas on the Canary
Islands and from there we went to Madeira, another island.
These isolated bits of land lie to the west of Northern
Africa. Canary Islanders, by terracing volcanic moun-
tains, have converted them into garden spots. Theirs is
an adventure in life on a vertical plane. Though I have
seen wilder areas, these have never been so intimately
associated with human beings. We might see a lovely
home built on the edge of a cliff, while numerous roads
that wind about the mountains are supported by sheer
walls, built of stone. The people who have transformed
this area are of the Mediterranean race, but with a minority
of blonds of unknown origin.

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Our next stop was at the city of Tangier, Morocco, lo-
cated in northwestern Africa where the Atlantic meets the
Mediterranean. To us carrying memories of the Canary
Islanders, the people of Tangier appeared extremely dark,
though the large majority are not Negroid. They represent
a type unfamiliar to Americans. For the present we shall
refer to them simply as Moors : inhabitants of Morocco.

Tangier has a residential area with a considerable num-
ber of well-to-do Europeans. The natives are poverty
stricken and have acquired an unsavory reputation. The
land about Tangier is cultivated and is uneven in contour
but affords no fine prospects.

Our next call was at the port of Malaga, Spain. Its
people compared with those of Tangier are quite fair, in
spite of a virtual absence of blonds.

The Moors conquered Spain and greatly influenced her
history for more than 700 years, though they did not hold
all of the land over this period. Reliable information with
respect to the racial origin of the Moors is not available.
We shall therefore dismiss this subject with a brief esti-
mate of probabilities. Some information indicates that the
Moors were dark; other evidence appears to contradict
this. Briefly, then, they were probably made up of several
racial elements: Arabs from the Near East, who were
probably a fair brunette group; Berbers, some tribes hav-
ing a minority of blond or rufus elements, and finally the
true Moors of North Africa, who were unquestionably dark
and whose racial background we shall discuss when we
reach Egypt. These groups were held together primarily
by hope of conquest; secondarily, because they were all
Moslems.

Possibly partly because of racial differences, the Moors
usually did not take their religion too seriously. Their
rulers were generally not fanatics. Broadly speaking, they
allowed Spanish Christians to live in peace providing they
paid a poll tax, though there was much confiscation of
property of the nobility and the Church. At times friendly
relations developed between Christians and Moslems.

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Culturally, Spain gained under the administration of the
Moslems. While most of Europe was in a stupor due to
the Dark Ages, Spain became a repository for numerous
ideas infiltering from the Near East through Moslem chan-
nels, including Greek thought.

We left the port of Malaga by car for Granada, almost
immediately starting the ascent of the Tajeda Mountains.
A few unpretentious but well-built houses, white or near
white, were scattered about on the mountain side. As we
approached its top, orchards and grain fields were to be
seen, even on steep areas. Though this was the early part
of February, it was the equivalent of spring in northern
climate; grass was green and fruit trees were in bloom.

After passing the summit we traveled a number of miles
where but little land was tillable, because of granitic rocks.
Finally, hills of solid granite arose on both sides of us to
heights of several hundred feet, their bleakness casting a
somber spell over the small valley down which we were
making our way.

Finally the land became more open. It was then that
we caught a distant glimpse of the snow-capped Sierra
Nevada Mountains shining as a silver streak against the
sky, their lower ramparts lost in haze. Immediately around
us were olive groves crowning softly rounded hills reach-
ing to the horizon. It was in this area that we encountered
numerous fine mansions, no doubt the center of great
landed estates. Finally we entered an expansive valley, the
site of Granada. The rich soils of this area are in marked
contrast with the land we had traveled.

The transition from poor and rocky fields to those of
natural fertility augmented by irrigation was paralleled by
an improvement in mechanical devices. In the granitic
areas transportation was largely confined to pack animals,
mostly donkeys, while further along horses and mules ap-
peared, sometimes pulling carts. Finally, in the valley a
few tractors were seen. In spite of these, we were sur-
prised at the amount of field labor done by hand.

The cities of Granada and Malaga are quite modern in

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their newer portions, though showing their antiquity in
places where some streets are so narrow as to be limited
to pedestrians.

We shall not describe the Alhambra, the objective of
our overland trip, as we were to see in far away lands finer
structures.

The Spanish People

Spain is predominantly inhabited by people of the Medi-
terranean race; she has absorbed minorities of other
Caucasian sub-races, Nordics as well as Alpines. I did not
see any indications that the dark Moors left numerous
genes, though we were in the area where they remained
the longest.

The Spanish people, as is pointed out by Ortega, have
great pride — too much to suit him. He refers to them as
proud, infinitely proud. Others refer to them as dignified.
However named, this quality, combined with the courtesy
that springs from it, makes them an interesting study, for
in spite of their reserve they love to converse, as has been
remarked on by a number of observers. We gained a feel-
ing that, poor as they are, they live a worthwhile life.

Spain has not hesitated to expel elements which she has
considered inimical with her aims — Jews as well as Moors,
and finally, Jesuits. Moslems, before their final defeat in
1492, had been leaving as they continued to meet with
military reverses. Between 1609 and 1611 many of the
remaining Moors were expelled to North Africa, as de-
creed by Philip III; the final exodus occurring in 1614.

On March 31, 1492, a decree was signed requiring
conversion or expulsion of Jews within four months. It is
now believed that some 165,000 left Spain while about
90,000 were baptized.

Why were Jews expelled from Spain? This happened
at a period of religious intolerance, which played a part,
though there were other reasons, many complaints sound-
ing quite modern. But in addition, it was believed that
they conspired to bring about the entry of the Moors.

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Further, according to the Catholic Encyclopaedia's article
on Torquemada, the "converted Jews [at the time of the
Spanish Inquisition] endeavored to Judaize all Spain, and
. . . the Catholic faith was in great danger from them."

AN APPRAISAL OF SPAIN

We remarked in an earlier writing on the incapacity of
Latins for democracy. But whereas the revolutions of
South America are apt to involve little more than a change
of ruling cliques, Spain's revolution of the thirties was a
bloody affair which profoundly upset the whole nation.

Spain and her people have fascinated many great men,
though it would be difficult to say precisely why. In spite
of this, let us present an estimate.

Many Northerners see Spain as a land of romance.
During the Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries she ac-
quired the richest empire in the world, and after her
decline into poverty the aurora of romance continued to
cling to her. Who has not become stimulated by the dream
world conjured up by a reference to "castles in Spain"?
Are we not all impressed when we learn of a Spanish
grandee? The title suggests the elegance that we have
come to associate with the Spanish aristocrat, the product
of a long period of selection. Madariaga believes that the
Gypsies and Jews of Spain represent the finest specimens
of these groups. The great men who have seen Spain and
her people in romantic lights are Bizet, Victor Hugo, Alex-
ander Dumas, Lord Byron, and a host of lesser musicians
and men of letters.

In his opera Carmen, Bizet caught many of the roman-
tic feelings that Northerners have for Spain and her people.
But it is probable that the Spanish do not see themselves
as we see them. Carmen, in spite of its brilliant melodies
and vibrant orchestration, has never been popular in the
land of its setting.

It is generally believed by anthropologists that the Medi-
terranean race is closely related to Nordics in spite of the

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difference in coloring, the similarities being obvious in
cranial and body structures and leading to a feeling of
kinship, with the difference introducing an element of
interest. The Spanish beauty with her dark hair and eyes
and at her best with a feminine vitality that is rarely
matched enjoys a deserved fame. Though the vivaciousness
natural to her is often curbed due to an aspect of Spanish
culture, it may show unexpectedly.

In spite of their narrow religious viewpoint Spaniards
are seldom puritans. The moral atmosphere of Spain is
more relaxed than in northern areas. Further, Spain is a
man's land; so why should it not be attractive to men from
anywhere, including those from Northlands?

The very names of Spanish cities and provinces sound
like music. In the areas we visited are the province of
Andalusia, the City of Granada, and the Sierra Nevada
Mountains.

But let us drop the world of romance to see what we
can learn of the Spanish people that is of more conse-
quence, though before we do this we must touch on an
idea that is disturbing our age.

One of the tenets of The New Mythology is opposed to
all value judgments with respect to peoples. According
to it, we must not employ our intelligence to draw such
conclusions. To justify this position the claim is made that
overall estimates of peoples cannot be proved. These are
then rejected out of hand and even stigmatized as im-
proper. Such ideas we refuse to accept.

In advancing the claim that the public is incapable of
making proper estimates of peoples, spokesmen for The
New Mythology ignore much evidence that points to the
opposite conclusion. Public estimates of worth may be
amazingly accurate. Thus, before they became confused
by The New Mythology, the majority of our people had
gained a correct understanding of the Negro's lack of
capacity. Their earlier estimate has been subsequently
borne out by a great array of scientific evidence.

In a scale of worth based on intellectual ability, where

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should we place the inhabitants of Spain? As a means of
judging their capacity, we shall look to the number of
Spaniards who have risen to international fame in intel-
lectual pursuits. As we do not consider that the art of
painting represents such, we rule out Spain's numerous
great artists. In fiction the Spanish have Cervantes; how-
ever great he may be, the poverty of first rate authors is
difficult to explain except through a lack of capacity. In
science the roster is equally poor. Cajal, a physiologist
and one of Spain's leading scientists, shows that in com-
parison with the rest of Europe Spain has shown poverty
in scientific thought. While we recognize that some of her
conquerors in the New World possessed a capacity for
wielding ruthless power in achieving self-aggrandizement,
such quality does not make for a sound civilization — -the
subject of our principal interest. On the other hand, we
credit Spain with producing a number of men on the fringe
of greatness.

Spain has had the usual apologists who explain her
backwardness and paucity of great men on the basis of
social and historical circumstances. All of these ignore the
fact that groups, peoples, and races have innate qualities
as do individuals and that these qualities profoundly affect
accomplishments. The New Mythology has set up environ-
ment as a god from whom magic flows. So great is this
magic that it dispenses with biology. Nature has proved
to be arbitrary. Saying this, we do not rule out the possi-
bility that cultural factors, particularly religions, may
greatly influence civilizations.

Certainly Cervantes was not helped by his environment.
It seemed to conspire to deny him even a minimum of
advantages. His genius rose above all difficulties. What
type of man was he? Cervantes refers to himself as having
chestnut hair, and before it turned silver, a golden beard.

Spain was the first country in Europe to introduce com-
pulsory education for children. The Spanish people have
had every opportunity to demonstrate their ability, unless
we consider the Catholic Church a sufficient stultifying

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factor to account for their backwardness. But this may
be looked at in two ways. While the Northern races have
had the strength of mind and courage to throw off the
bonds of this intellectual tyranny, Latins generally have
not.

Though we feel that our estimate has been proper, and
within limits, accurate, we would not make too much of
it. The West now faces a problem of vastly greater im-
port. With tropical peoples posed to swamp us by means
of peaceful penetration and with our own radicals actively
abetting such projects, we stand in need of Western soli-
darity in opposition. This should include all Caucasians,
and, among them, the Spanish.

In my opinion if Latins could divest themselves of the
racial beliefs fostered by the Catholic Church, they might
become racists, for we occasionally learn of individual
Latins with a remarkably clear understanding of the danger
posed to our kind by Negroes. Given freedom in this area,
I believe that we might even see a dynamic racist leader-
ship appear in some Latin lands.

We shall skip lightly over some areas of beauty and
interest. The Monastery of Montserrat is located several
miles from Barcelona in a mountainous area, perched on
the side of a cliff which affords a distant view of the
Pyrenees Mountains. The Riviera we shall leave to its
tourists.

ITALY AND THE ITALIANS

Northern Italy has an interesting countryside. The city
of Florence is remarkable for the number of great men,
men of international reputation, who were either born or
lived there. But it is the Italian hilltop villages and towns
that stand out most clearly in our memories. Often located
at a considerable height, these positions formerly aided in
defense. Seen from a distance in early evening, they sug-
gest dreams of a romantic past.

The Romans have long been skillful builders. Italy has

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an abundance of rock in its hills and mountains but little
timber. Due to this situation, rock is extensively employed
in construction, though usually covered with plaster and
painted, while tile roofs are everywhere seen. The con-
struction gives an air of permanency appropriate to an
ancient -civilization.

The exterior of St. Peter's is unimpressive, though the
court in front of it, flanked as it is by numerous columns,
offers a fine sight.

St. Peter's is built in the shape of a cross — 600 feet
long and 450 feet wide with a great dome striking upward
over the area of convergence. How the dome fits sym-
bolically into a conception based on the cross, I am not
aware — but there it arises in all of its magnificence.

No figures can convey the majestic feeling of grandeur
imparted by the interior of the cathedral. Looking from
one end of the central nave towards the other, one is
impressed by the tininess of the human figures as these
are seen about the tomb of St. Peter, located under the
dome. The canopy which surmounts the tomb is made of
bronze supported by four great bronze pillars. Strangely,
this metal is of pagan origin, having been removed from
the Pantheon.

While sightseeing in Italy, we were frequently reminded
by our guides that the early Christians had been perse-
cuted, but never a word was said about cruelties practiced
by Christians against skeptics during the Inquisition.

One gains the impression over the Mediterranean lands
that an excessive proportion of the wealth of its peoples
has been diverted into the construction of cathedrals,
churches, and chapels. Of these there are in Rome alone
440 devoted to the Catholic faith. (It may be of some
interest to record that Rome has 12 Protestant churches
and 2 synagogues.)

In addition to the cost of the structures, an immense
amount of wealth is diverted to the maintenance of the
Church as an organization, its priesthood being largely

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unproductive. But surely, the Church must offer some-
thing in return.

At a cocktail party aboard ship I was told by a doctor,
born in Sicily but brought to America while young and
educated in New York City, that the Mediterranean peo-
ples are in need of the discipline imposed by the Church
on its peoples. It was his belief that without priests to tell
the poor that it is wrong to steal, and freed of the fear of
Hell, crimes would greatly increase. These, he admitted,
are unduly high, and he remarked that all of the peoples
of the Mediterranean are dishonest. He spoke highly of
the Japanese, by contrast. I might add that experienced
travelers have developed similar beliefs about these peo-
ples, based on experience. We need not discount their
beliefs, as The New Mythology would have us do; for, as
we have seen, popular appraisals are often correct. In case
the Church cannot justify its existence on other grounds,
Mediterraneans pay an immense price for this form of
discipline. But the Church has other functions.

We gained the impression in the Catholic lands we
visited that much of community life is tied to Church ac-
tivities. Showmanship is everywhere in evidence, the great
cathedrals offering this as fiestas in frozen form, the fiestas
providing a temperate but dynamic outlet for the Latin
love of spectacles. Again, the cost to the people is high.

In spite of the powerful hold of the Church in the
Mediterranean area, there is evidence that in Italy she is
losing some of her grip; there are a surprising number
of atheists in this land of the ancient pagans.

Rome looks best at night. Many of its buildings are
painted a golden tan and as the illumination from the
city's lights is also golden, the effect is pleasing. By day
they appear faded and shabby. In portions of the out-
lying parts of the city at least a few of the streets have
been widened — some, greatly, so that the effect is one
of openness, much in contrast with the other Mediter-
ranean cities that we visited, except Barcelona.

The Italian People

Basically, the people of Italy are of the Mediterranean
race; particularly to the south of Rome. To the north,
they have absorbed Caucasian sub-races in numbers,
especially Alpines and various groups affiliated with Nor-
dic stocks.

Because of their incapacity for democracy, Latins need
able leaders. When they have had these, they have been
great conquerors. At other times they failed.

Most of Rome's successful leaders sprang from her
important families. As Rome achieved greatness, her
gifted families began to die out. They were apt to have
one child or none or often an adopted child — sometimes
a slave. It is quite likely that the ending of the better
strains of Roman blood played a part in her decline, and
possibly a major one.

How much has Italy benefited from the Northern people
who have settled in her land, particularly in the North?
Certainly, some; probably, a great deal. As an example,
Caesar Augustus, grand nephew of Julius Caesar, is
claimed by racists as a Nordic, and credence is given
to this claim as he had sandy or golden hair and light
eyes. But what can one man do for a whole nation? In
the case of Augustus, a great deal; his impact on history
changed its course. It is generally recognized that Augustus
ended the threat of anarchy and established an era of
internal and external peace, unfamiliar to the ancient
world. This, he considered his greatest accomplishment.

Augustus gathered all power to himself, then employed
it for the benefit of the Empire; achieving a harmonious
whole, and this without any special concessions to any
group or groups. Nor did he employ demagoguery or
imply that he aimed at equality. At the same time he
was democratic in his personal relationships and would
not allow the display of statues of himself. He spent
tremendous sums in improving and beautifying Rome and
the Empire; none for his own aggrandizement, though he
ruled virtually all of the then known world. Augustus,

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in refusing to promote his own personality, was the least
Latin of the Romans.

So great was the success of Augustus that, partly in his
lifetime but mostly after his death, he became revered
throughout the Empire as a divine figure.

One of Augustus's favorite emblems was the Sphinx,
which is fitting for he remains one of the most enigmatic
figures encountered in history. He could speak fluently
when he chose or hold his tongue. When his genius failed
him, he learned from experience. In spite of the fact
that he suffered from poor health all of his life and was
subjected to unprecedented strains, observers have re-
marked on his placid expression, which shows in his
portraits. Though it is difficult to penetrate to the inner-
most reaches of his mind, we know that he was a con-
servative, who wished to preserve the classes much as
they had developed historically, though he saw to it that
exceptional individuals could arise and gain recognition.
He also tried to restore the ancient Roman virtues.

Of the great men of history, Augustus has garnered
the least fame. There are several reasons for this. Con-
servatives who have become intoxicated with democracy
do not like him because he became the first emperor of
Rome. Radicals despise him because he was basically
a conservative. Romantic lovers of displays of sheer power
are apt to ignore him because he rejected such a pursuit.
An appraisal of true greatness of Augustus, based on
balance and moderation, lies outside of public interest.
The few who have seen beyond these superficial outlooks
have had little or no effect in establishing a deserved fame
for this great man.

From Italy, we sailed for Greece. As this country was
the site of the first flowering of most that is best in Western
thought we shall by-pass it here, hoping to deal with it
later, when we have more space at our disposal.

We left Athens for the island of Rhodes, and from
there went to Egpyt.

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AN OVERALL LOOK AT AFRICA

Let us pause for a brief survey of Africa. This vast con-
tinent has its greatest land mass near the Equator; and, as
equatorial lands have been unfavorable for the develop-
ment of the higher forms of life, including members of
the human family, there is a basic biological reason for its
racial backwardness, reflected in undeveloped societies.
Tropical high lands are more favorable. Some of central
eastern Africa falls into this class.

Africa is rich in natural resources, which are unevenly
distributed. Though mostly tropical, the climate varies
especially in the all-important amount of rainfall. The
richness of the land and its utility also vary greatly. Fur-
ther, the continent is divided psychologically. Tribes dis-
like neighboring tribes, religious groups are in conflict with
each other; the Blacks, as is pointed out by Stuart Clote,
have developed a powerful anti-white feeling.

Negroes, as is the case with other major races, are
divided into a number of sub-races, some being superior
to others intellectually — though none are gifted. Hotten-
tots and Bushmen of the South, as well as the forest
dwelling Pygmies, may be considered to be at the bottom
of the scale, while the races of the eastern highlands, who
have absorbed elements from other races, represent higher
forms, with the "true" Negroes of western central Africa
occupying an intermediate position.

As we shall be from here on particularly noting differ-
ences in color, let us say a few words about this subject.
We do not attach significance to blond hair and fair skins,
as such. Rather, they indicate genes of the northland — an
area which has been favorable to the development of
higher forms of life. But not all northerners have become
blond, as is attested to in Scotland and the Scandinavian
countries. Further, Caucasians wherever found show in
their skeletal structures, particularly those of the cranium,
decidedly more evolved forms than those of Negroes or
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a complex of factors. Color is but one of these: yet it
plays an important part in evaluating primitive races.

Egypt

We caught sight of Egypt at the port of Alexandria.
Our first contact with Egyptians was with the small army
of immigration and custom officials who boarded the ship :
a non-Caucasian group of a deep brown color. Two guards
were Negroes.

We made the trip from Alexandria to Cairo by train.
The land over which we passed was part of Egypt's great
delta and appeared to be very rich. For a time our train
ran at the side of a wide canal, plied by many boats, some
of them sailing before a brisk wind.

Everywhere we saw, though thinly spread, animals and
humans; the former consisted of burros, which were mostly
white; water buffaloes, cattle, an occasional horse or
camel, as well as a few sheep. Usually the animals were
tethered in small groups.

We passed through small villages of mud huts and a
few towns largely constructed of brick. Though the build-
ings, apparently apartment houses, were on small lots,
many of them were 4 to 5 stories high; often, in bad
repair. Some of the new ones were of attractive design.

Cairo is a city of extreme contrasts. Its newer and
better sections have modern buildings, with comparatively
wide and clean streets, though these areas are smaller than
would be expected for a city of its size. The older parts
of the city have many streets so narrow that they are
limited to pedestrians. These parts, including an occa-
sional wide street, are unbelievably filthy. The costumes
here vary greatly and run from European types, those of
the colorful East, to colorless rags. The wider streets in
these poorer sections are crowded with cars, trucks, and
carts drawn by humans as well as animals. Right of way
is taken by the vehicle that offers the greatest threat,
though not till after much sounding of horns. In the dis-
order, a chaotic madness holds sway.

I was shocked at the number of Negroes, or those show-
ing Negro blood, whom we encountered, though they rep-
resent a minority.

While in Cairo we visited the pyramids, which lie across
the Nile, and a few miles over a bleak desert.

Egypt is believed by many students of the origin of
civilization, to be the oldest. All agree that its civilization
is extremely ancient and has persisted into modern times.
This fact introduces a subject of interest.

Lamarck believed that acquired characters are inherited.
This belief, known as Lamarckism, teaches that species of
animals evolve by practice. If true, this should apply to
the brain as well as the skeletal system. Lamarckism has
been officially adopted by the Soviets, and though dis-
proved by geneticists it continues to rc-emcrgc in subtle
forms in the West. Let us see what light Egypt throws
on it.

If Lamarckism were true, Egypt should lead the world :
her intellectual classes should be the most intelligent, her
workers should be the most skillful, her people should be
so adapted to civilization that they could carry forward a
progressive culture virtually without effort. But what do
we find?

Egypt trails the northwestern European nations, which
have had but a comparatively brief time under civilization.
This situation is explained on but one tenable basis: the
races of the north have been better favored by nature.

The American version of Lamarckism as embodied in
The New Mythology is: Given time and a little help, all
backward nations, irrespective of their racial make-up, will
be able to support the most modern civilization. Both
reject human biology as a factor of consequence.

I was told by an American living in Cairo that the
Federation (United Arab Republic; for our purposes,
Egypt) makes much of its theoretical acceptance of all
Africans as equals, but that in practice "prejudice" and
discrimination against Negroes is found, though he added
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contented with their lowly lot. He mentioned the fact
that as the country has but two classes, Negroes find them-
selves part of the great majority, and because they do not
have the money to patronize the better restaurants, ques-
tions of discrimination in these do not arise. A further
mitigating factor, he said, is the constant show of interest
in Negroid Africa by the Federation. In Cairo, Negroes
are employed most frequently as waiters or in other jobs
requiring little output of physical or mental energy.

Egypt has two English language publications devoted
to presenting Egyptian views, and with the utmost candor,
propaganda. One, The Egyptian Gazette, is a newspaper;
the other is a weekly magazine, The Arab Observer. The
latter has adopted the position that the great contests of
today are being fought in the field of propaganda. It
makes it clear that the Arabian countries have suffered a
great deal from Jewish propaganda, and because of this,
the Federation is preparing a counter offensive. It has, or
expects soon to have, offices in six countries. Egypt
emerges, as of today, as the only country in the world
taking official notice of the fact that Jewish propaganda is
based on advancing Jewish tribal interests and, in case of
conflict, without consideration for the interests of others.

We left by plane for Luxor and were not to see our
ship again till we picked it up at Aden, in southern Arabia.

UPPER EGYPT VISITED

Luxor is some 650 miles up the Nile and has been the
site of Thebes, and in ancient times was the capital of
Egypt's "Middle Kingdom". Today it is a town of but a
few thousand, the brown skinned element largely domi-
nant, with a larger proportion of Negroes than we had
seen further north.

Across the Nile from Luxor and about 13 miles west
are found the Valley of the Kings and the Valley of the
Queens. Most of the intervening area is irrigated farm
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ing a slight uplift, a land devoid of vegetation took over.
The sun beat down from a cloudless sky on an infinity of
rocks, and was reflected from them as well as from great
sandstone cliffs.

The Valley of the Kings is said to contain tombs of
some 50 Pharaohs. We visited those of King Tutank-
hamen (Tut), Amenaphis the Second, and of Rameses the
Second. Some of the paintings on the walls are well pre-
served, and show people with features similar to those of
modern Egyptians. The fact of the stability of types has
frequently been remarked on by anthropologists and
others. Only the tomb of Rameses the Second showed
pictures of Negroes, and but few of these.

The tombs lie up a canyon and are excavated from solid
rock — quite an accomplishment in the ancient world.
Around the mountain and in the Valley of the Queens is
to be seen the great temple in which Queen Hatshepsul is
buried. It is built in three tiers and is impressive, standing
as it does against a great cliff of rock in a scene of lonely
grandeur.

Back in or near Luxor we visited the temples of Luxor
and Karnak. The latter, though it has lost its roof in an
earthquake, made a greater impression on me than did the
pyramids. Left standing, are a veritable forest of gigantic
pillars.

Later in India we often gained the impression of being
in the midst of a land saturated by history. While in
Egypt's Middle Kingdom we did not experience such an
emotion, which we attribute to the fact that the habitable
areas around Luxor are limited. In central Egypt the
only land capable of supporting human life is but a tiny
streak across a vast and forbidding desert to which no
memories cling.

Because of President Nassar's ambitions to lead all of
the states that might be called Arab, his propaganda con-
tends that Egyptians are Arabs. The average Egyptian,
however, on being asked if he is an Arab, will tell you
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say that the members of that group are Negroes who are
citizens of Egypt.

Most Egyptians are followers of Islam. Not only does
this religion foster a belief in race equality, but the new
ambitions of leaders of lands which may be called Arabian
are causing them to promote equality as a unifying factor.
Professor Bernard Lewis tells us that a gathering of Arab
leaders a few years ago defined an Arab in these words:
"Whoever lives in our country, speaks our language, is
brought up in our culture and takes pride in our glory is
one of us." It will be noted that no reference is made to
race or common origin. From this point of view as well
as that of their religion, a Negro could qualify as an Arab.

The Near East has a deplorable record with respect to
human biology.

The Egyptian People

Now for a look at Egypt's racial make-up. As previ-
ously remarked, Egyptians, taken as a whole, are very
dark, though lighter elements are found. Some individuals
could pass as Caucasians. Many races have immigrated
to Egypt, not only from bordering lands but also from
further north, and some of these would probably have
carried elements that were quite light. In Cairo I met a
young man, a native, who was blond with blue eyes.

Egypt's predominantly dark element represent the
largest single group. In my opinion this dark, non-Negro
element can be best observed in the area of Luxor, where
they bear a striking resemblance to the people of India.
These latter may be referred to as Dravidians, and Sir
Arthur Keith believes, as I do, that the darker element
found in Egpyt are also Dravidians.

In this writer's opinion the dark, non-Negroid peoples
of north Africa, including those of Tangiers, and probably
the dark Moors are of Dravidian racial stock.

Because of the purity of type of many Egyptians, much
racial apartness must have been practiced; and this over
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to blend, certain theorists believe; other factors obviously
work towards the preservation of types. Even where some
crossing has occurred, your writer believes that re-segrega-
tion usually develops, based on the type which individuals
most closely resemble.

As of now, there is little threat of Egypt being further
overrun by Negroes, because of immigration restrictions
based on an over supply of manual laborers. No immigra-
tion is permitted except for specialists. A biological crisis
may arise if Egypt should find herself in need of many
unskilled laborers.

Egypt is the first, unless it be Morocco, of the lands
peopled by dark skinned races which we visited that is
plagued by an excessive birth rate.

Khartoum

We traveled by plane from Luxor to Khartoum, located
in a cotton growing area lying on the Nile to the south
of Luxor. Khartoum is the capital of the Sudan, now an
independent country. It and adjoining towns, or suburbs,
are said to have a population of 500,000, though the
buildings and residential areas suggest that it is smaller.

As we entered the city by bus from the airport, I was
surprised to see residences equalling those that might be
found in an upper middle class area in the United States,
with well kept yards, for I had been prepared for Negro
type shacks. We later learned that this was the European
section. There are some 50,000 Caucasians in the city.
In addition, a fairly large group of Dravidians are found;
the remaining and numerically predominant element are
Negroes.

The Sudan was under British rule for 55 years. It has
been independent for 5 years. The present government,
though called a democracy, is a dictatorship, headed by
General Ibrahim Abbound.

We crossed the Nile to visit the native section, which I
assume was laid out by Europeans, as it gives every
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low an overall plan. Usually but one story high, they are
made of unburned brick, which is practical in this land
where rain is virtually unknown. In the business area the
walls are plastered and whitewashed and the sidewalks
are roofed.

As we turned onto the main business street, the first
effect was of sunlight striking the white robes of a thousand
figures, and glinting from white turbans, all in a kaleido-
scope of motion.

We halted and crossed to the sunny side of the street
to visit the bazaars. As the afternoon was about half over,
canopies had been let down from the outer edge of the
roofed walks; the canopies were made of any material that
came to hand, mostly burlap sacks. Across the sidewalks
were the shops, about 10 feet wide and 20 feet deep.

My first glance into one of these was startling. A figure
reclining on a sofa against a sidewall, was oblivious to
all that was going on. After the surprise of this strange
sight in a place of business, I became aware of the fact
that the premises were cluttered with a confused mass of
objects. Toward the front were box-like show cases,
displaying trinkets; their glass semi-opaque due to en-
crusted dirt.

In another bazaar we saw a small stove, an enormous
safe, a pile of wood for fuel, cotton goods of all kinds,
stacked anywhere, and the inevitable native visitors and
spectators. A few shops had two or three workers in
gold, silver or leather.

Across the street, on the shady side, were many figures
on the sidewalk, sitting with their backs against walls, or
they might be stretched out in semi-reclining positions.
Much of the merchandise was displayed on the walk, or
the walk might be used for storage. Because of these
obstructions, almost everyone walked in the street. This
is the Fifth Avenue of the native quarter.

Left to their own devices, Negroes seldom order their
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fusion and profusion of humanity, we sensed that we were
penetrating to the true spirit of Negro civilization as
Negroes wish it and where it reaches such heights as they
are capable of attaining. It is this chaos that they revert
to when left alone.

AN APPRAISAL OF THE AFRICAN
The land south of Khartoum as seen from the air over
many miles is devoted to growing cotton where water is
available. Still further south the plain began to rise, first
in rounded hills, then more precipitously as they reached
toward the plateaus of the Ethiopian high lands. From
then on to near Addis Ababa, vast benches alternated with
great canyons. The level land was divided into fields of
irregular shape, while far and near all was parched, for
this was March; the rainy season occurs in the months of
June, July and August, when so much rain falls that two
crops can be raised.

Addis Ababa is 8,000 feet high. Being near the equator
it has a remarkably even climate, near to ideal.

After Italy was forced to withdraw her troops from
Ethiopia and upon his return to power, Emperor Haile
Selassie granted the privilege of remaining in the country
to 6,000 Italians, who constitute the largest group of
Caucasians. I could not determine their present number.
Next numerically are Greeks, followed by Armenians.
There are several other nationalities, including French and
Swedish. The population of Addis Ababa is reported to
be 500,000; that of the nation, 22,000,000. The housing
does not seem adequate for such numbers.

The Emperor made a wise move in permitting the Ital-
ians to remain; they have contributed much to the country.
Our guide told us that Ethiopia's economy is controlled
by non-Ethiopians because rich Ethiopians, whose wealth
is mostly in land, have not been willing to risk their capital
in commercial undertakings. He expressed the belief that
this situation will shortly change.

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among the "true" Negroes. This is certainly so of mem-
bers of the Amharas, a tribe of Ethiopia, who are lighter
in color than Negroes. There is also a racial element in
Ethiopia who superficially resemble Negroes because of
kinky hair and equally dark skins, but do not show some
of the true Negro's basic characteristics, being more
evolved. Fitzgerald points to the fact that throughout the
eastern area of Africa classes are based on race, with
those with the least Negro blood at the top and those with
the most at the bottom.

The New Mythology not having penetrated Ethiopia,
its citizens live in happy ignorance that they should force
integration on everyone. As near as I could observe or
learn from those acquainted with the facts, they believe
that it is perfectly natural for people to associate with
others of their choice. Italians have a fine club house for
those of their kind. The French have an excellent school.
This does not mean all Ethiopians live in harmony. There
is much dislike, bordering on hatred, between members of
various tribes. I was informed that there is some jealousy
of the Amharas because of their lighter skins and political
influence.

Everyone agrees that the power of His Imperial Ma-
jesty Haile Selassie is absolute, but no one appears to be
concerned about this situation other than a group of edu-
cated younger men who would have the Emperor more
aggressive in pushing programs of improvement. He has
sponsored five handicraft schools of considerable size.

Addis Ababa means "new flower". The city is built on
a number of hills, surrounded by higher ones covered with
eucalyptus trees. Many of the streets are nicely curved
but the city otherwise shows little of planning; ar occa-
sional fine building may be flanked by old and dilapidated
one story structures.

The bazaars at Addis Ababa differ in detail from those
of Khartoum but are sufficiently similar not to call for a
description, though we shall mention that the natives in
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natives wore white robes. Here, they dressed in many
styles; the few robes that we saw were usually neither
white nor bright. Shorts appeared to be fairly popular
with the younger generation. An occasional European type
of suit was seen on a native, or mixtures of several styles
might be worn. Some of the robed figures were in rags,
and filthy.

Ethiopia has its own airline, being operated under a
contract with an American company. It employs Amer-
ican pilots and Ethiopian hostesses.

Leaving Addis Ababa by plane we were able to observe
farm houses being displaced by round mud huts with
thatched cone-like roofs, usually one to the farm, placed
within a walled enclosure with other small buildings.
Again, the fields were of irregular shape. Still further
along, at lower elevations, farming ceased where the land
beneath us, all but denuded of vegetation, turned to a
brown-tan desert as it dropped by rugged stages towards
the Gulf of Aden. Finally, the Sea of Aden lay beneath
us, its pale blue waters dotted by ships skirting Arabia,
heading for or from the Suez Canal.

Your author regrets that our journey did not take us to
western central Africa, where he is sure much information
of value could have been uncovered through firsthand
acquaintance with the facts. Still, on the strength of our s
limited observation of African scenes reenforced with in-
formation we gathered, let us proceed to an appraisal of
the African Negro.

We first remark that trade has been one of the great
spreaders of civilization. Negroid Africa has been visited
by traders for some 3,000 years, principally in search of
ivory, gold dust, nuggets, spice, and slaves. The traders
include Arabs, who maintained civilized outposts in east-
ern Africa, Indians, Egyptians, Persians, Jews, and later
men from a number of western European lands. Artifacts
left by these groups are still found. Well established trade
routes were developed from the east coast to the interior,

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as well as six from the Mediterranean world south, in spite
of the difficult terrain.

Many civilized attitudes, especially those that lead to
high ideals, have passed from group to group on contact.
Negroes have never advanced themselves in this way, for
such ideals have proved foreign to their natures. Walter
Fitzgerald, thoroughly acquainted with the African scene,
is one of the few who have had the courage, in a world
dominated by radical beliefs, to show that the adoption by
African Negroes of European customs will not change their
innate traits.

No major group known to history has been given the
benefit of so many attempts by outsiders to educate them
as have African Negroes : many schools having been spon-
sored by church and other organizations. In a recent
interview the Foreign Minister of Nigeria stated that
20,000 Nigerians are studying in Great Britain alone.
Besides these, though exact figures are not available, sev-
eral thousand others are attending universities in America
and various European lands. How much does this promise
for Africa? Probably, virtually nothing. As pointed out
by Cloete, when African Negroes have picked up tech-
nology from outsiders, they usually forget how to employ
it. On the other hand, African s, as is known to students
of their affairs, h ave never been a ble tod o anything o f
consequence for themse lves.

As a control, let us look at another group, the Mayans
of Central America, who, unaided, became proficient
mathematicians and developed an amazingly accurate cal-
endar. They also employed glyph writing. Negroes, till
shown how by white men, never learned to count, and
had no method of writing. Mayans learned to build with
stone. Negroes never did. The buildings at Zimbowe, as
pointed out by Fitzgerald, were almost certainly erected
under the direction of Arabs or Asiatics. Why the failure
of the one group and the success of the other? Obviously,
the environments were similar. The basic differences were
biological and the superiority of the one over the other

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was demonstrated by their respective histories. Even with-
out the benefit of writing, some groups have created great
poetry and literature. Negroes never have.

Do these failures to become civilized imply that Negroes,
as savages, lived a life of happiness before the White man
began modifying their habits? It does not. Negroid Africa
has been a land of blood, violence, mutilation, and can-
nibalism; an area of rank superstitions involving at times
intense mental suffering. Many have lived in terror of
witch doctors who might place a curse on them. Indi-
viduals lived in fear of chiefs who could torture them or
sell them into slavery. Not only this but tribe members
might be killed or carried off to be sold as slaves by enemy
tribes. Were it not for the white man, all of this, including
slavery, would still prevail. Negroes are not adverse to
enslaving one another.

One of the delusions spread by The New Mythology is
that African Negroes have been "exploited" by Caucasi-
ans. This is absurd. Had not white men offered them
higher pay than they could elsewhere command, they
would not have accepted jobs: wherever Caucasians con-
trol the economy, Negroes enjoy relative prosperity.

Have Negroes appreciated the benefits they have derived
through the presence of the white man? Obviously, they
have not. Rather, an anti-white epidemic sweeps the land.
Stuart Cloete quotes a mine manager as saying of his
Negro employees: "They are never grateful for anything
done for them." Though Christians have spent large sums
in Africa and many missionaries have worked unselfishly
to advance the interests of Negroes, Christianity is losing
to Islam. Possibly I have been too harsh. Stuart Cloete
believes that almost every white man knows one Negro
whom he likes.

Cloete, who has had firsthand experience with Negroes,
believes that they are one hundred percent dishonest and
that corruption is endemic with them. The ardent apolo-
gist for African Negroes, John Gunther, admits that their
governmental leaders are addicted to wholesale graft.

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Why is the world, but particularly America, siding with
Negroes in Africa, and against Caucasians found in the
same area? South African Caucasians believe that this is
due to our politicians seeking favor with American
Negroes. To this I only partially subscribe. I believe that
this fact can be traced to the activities of the "priests" of
The New Mythology as propagandists. These dedicated
men have influenced our State Department and dominate
agencies of the United Nations. They have profoundly
affected our universities, churches and wealthy founda-
tions, so that many, if not most of these, are actively pro-
moting animalism.

We found in an earlier chapter that the principal con-
cern of the "priests" of The New Mythology is to make
life easy and pleasant for misfits. Negroes fall into this
class; they are not adapted to the requirements of advanced
civilization. Further, they are numerous, providing ani-
malists with many opportunities to show their righteous-
ness, providing, of course, we are stupid enough to see
them in the image which they hold of themselves.

Possibly normal men will find it difficult to believe that
anyone could become so debased as to promote animalism.
Let us therefore look at this question in the light of his-
story, where we find analogous situations. Indian priests
invested the cow with sacredness; the history of Egypt
shows that the bull as well as the cow were worshiped, and
at one time the ram. Savages often idealize lower forms
of life. Our immature groups, under the tenets of The
New Mythology are again promoting animalism, but in a
new form, one with which their spiritual ancestors were
unacquainted. The psychological factors are basically
similar: both groups idealize inferior forms of life.

A RELIGIOUS PEOPLE AND A HOLY CITY
Our port of entry to India was Bombay, located on its
western central coast. The people of this city of over
3,000,000 vary greatly in color, from almost black to a
fairly light tan.

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Bombay has become a great trading center and the site
of many industries; the prosperity of its inhabitants is
attested by the many automobiles seen on the streets, as
well as the number of substantially constructed apartment
houses.

Most of the buildings in the better part of Bombay are
7 to 8 stories high. The streets of this section are kept
quite clean. Towards the suburbs the buildings gradually
drop to a height of 3 or 4 stories; then to one or two story
affairs and the streets become dirty. Finally, the open
bazaars take over and filth is everywhere, but more par-
ticularly on the sidewalks.

Now for a few words about terms. Citizens of India are,
by definition, Indians. The word Hindu was first em-
ployed to distinguish between Moslems and those who
followed the religion native to India, but in modern times
the term Hinduism (formerly Brahmanism) has come to
mean the religion native to the land.

As a number of Indian cities, including Bombay as well
as others further east, owe much to the British, we shall
deal with them together in a later chapter.

Benaras
We left Bombay by plane, our next stop being Benaras,
which lies more than half-way across the country and
somewhat to the north. As this is India's Holy City for all
sects (according to Chakravorty), let us pause to try to
gain some insight into Hinduism and the other Indian re-
ligions.

It is impossible to sum up in a few words what Hindu-
ism stands for; it is vastly complex. Not only is it a religion
but Hindus refer to it as a way of life, for it embraces
much of their culture. At different times different aspects
may be stressed, further confusing the outsider, though
not upsetting the balance for the Hindu. Hinduism has by
far the most followers. Its doctrines about the one and
the many, unity and variety, are so complex that a con-
siderable flexibility is required to grasp the various view-
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Hinduism began as a form of nature worship, evolved
into a philosophical outlook with some leanings towards
monotheism— though these have never been insisted on
and monotheism has been rejected by several of the ortho-
dox systems. In discussions with Hindus, I occasionally
encountered the idea that back of the many gods is a
Supreme One. The Indian, Chakravorty, believes that
without its underlying philosophical unity Hinduism would
have perished. This is achieved, according to him, and in
spite of the variety of gods, by the worshiper realizing that
the special god of his choice is but one manifestation of
the Supreme Being: all reflect the Supreme One. Though
the Hindu conception of monotheism is of considerable
antiquity (probably pre-Christian according to Basham),
this attitude has been reinforced by contacts with the West.
In the case of those who have leanings towards mono-
theism each has his own understanding of God, for per-
fect freedom in most beliefs is granted. According to Max
Weber Hinduism does not comprehend the conception of
dogmas. We could further add to its complexities by an
historical account of the Vedas, its holy book. An excur-
sion into the realm of its various gods offers opportunities
to get sidetracked into minor fields. But all of this we
shall forego to continue with other aspects of this remark-
able religion.

Up to this point we have stressed the flexibility of the
beliefs and attitudes of Hinduism. Now for an area of
rigidity According to Max Weber, the caste system is
fundamental to Hinduism, for from this conception stems
the influence of the Brahmans. As caste has been uni-
versally denounced by radicals, let us look at some facts
which they belittle or ignore. It has given India social
stability without the need for a strong central government,
which so often leads to tyranny. Fear of loss of caste has
maintained discipline. But its most important function has
been to preserve biological values based on color, the
lighter colors being found in the upper castes.

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pose, as it came to embrace many other differences, such
as those of occupation, and in this process has become
amazingly complicated. Attempts to do away with it have
failed, particularly in its biological aspects.

We have said nothing of India's minority religions. Of
these, Mohammedanism is the most influential. Its tenets
are so simple as to be unworthy of an intellectual discus-
sion, being but an expression of a typical monist's feelings
for oneness as this found form in the era ante-dating Marx,
including the monist's tender-minded onlook. The beliefs
of Mohammed, promulgated centuries after the periods in
which the great thinkers of Greece had presented the world
with their amazingly enlightened conceptions, was an
abysmal descent to a lower order of thought. Islam's most
marked characteristic is the narrowness induced in its fol-
lowers, which has had a powerful disruptive effect in India,
since the monists who promote it are intolerant of the
pluralistic views of Hinduism. As a result of these differ-
ences, Pakistan, a Moslem stronghold, withdrew from
India.

Buddhism rejected the caste system and therefore failed.
Jainism, which holds, among other beliefs that all forms
of life, including insect pests, are sacred, has remained a
minority belief, though it, as well as Buddhism, has
affected Hinduism. Christianity and Zoroastrianism have
found relatively few followers. The Sikhs, believers in
monotheism, have had little effect on India's other re-
ligions.

Our trip from Bombay to Benaras was by air. As it was
just in advance of the rainy season, the land was brown
and appeared parched.

We landed at the airport serving Benaras (sometimes
known as Varanasi) early in the evening. The trip of
several miles to the city was made by car as twilight was
gathering. Our road was lined by tall trees. Then our
lights showed occasional white robed figures, most of them
on foot, some on bicycles, with a few riding in bicycle
rickshaws. Aside from this there was hardly any traffic.

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Finally, small buildings appeared and soon we were in
a village, where kerosene lamps cast a soft glow over the
bazaars and the street. Suddenly we encountered a small
crowd accompanied by a great elephant robed in scarlet,
all lighted by many torches. Some of the figures wore
bright robes for the occasion — a wedding procession. Our
glimpse of this brilliant scene was brief for soon we were
plunged into the black Indian night, which was relieved
only when we reached the area of our hotel.

Hindus advance the claim for Benaras that it is the
greatest cultural and religious center in India. Yet it is
incredibly filthy. Adding to the sense of disorder, some
deserted buildings in an advanced state of decay are found
in the midst of newer structures, though most of the latter
are faded in color and look dilapidated. Sacred cows
wander about free of constraint; many goats are also seen,
as well as a few donkeys and an occasional pig. The side-
walks are the most filthy, and unless the pedestrian pro-
ceeds with caution he is apt to step in animal droppings.
The Hindu temples of Benaras were dirty and unkempt.
This is not the case over all of India,

The small open front bazaars found in great numbers
abound in filth, while those devoted to cooking and food
displays swarm with flies. But strangely enough the mer-
chandise is presented in an orderly fashion, in marked
contrast with Negro bazaars, particularly those of the
Sudanese city of Khartoum.

To visit the Ganges, we arose before daylight, though
the river is but across the city. As we were getting under
way a faint light appeared in the eastern sky. This pleased
us, for our eyes were greedy for sights of the more spiritual
portions of this Holy City, together with its sacred river.
As we approached our destination, twilight enveloped the
scenes. We finally left our vehicle and joined a swarm of
human beings mostly dressed in loose fitting white robes;
other costumes, colorful, dirty or ragged, were also in
evidence. Mixed with the motley crew were a variety of
vehicles, these being carts or bicycles as well as occasional

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automobiles and bicycle rickshaws, with the whole swarm-
ing mass pushing on towards the river. Dogs made their
way through the confusion, while pigeons fluttered above
it. The street through which we had been passing was
lined with buildings 3 or 4 stories high of dingy appear-
ance, their dark recesses foreshadowing the strange world
into which we were about to enter. Near the top of the
steps that led to the Ganges in a slightly expanded area
some untouchables, male and female, were doing their best
with their strange unmanageable brooms, to clean up the
immediate area. Towards the side of the great battery of
steps that descend to the river a few beggars were begin-
ning to take their places.

The steps that we have referred to are named ghats, these
being greatly expanded horizontally towards the water's
edge to provide landing areas for boats as well as to ac-
commodate bathers. Hindus attach much importance to
the Benaras ghats, believed to be gates to heaven.

Our trip was so well timed that the sun was rising just
as we stepped onto the deck of the small craft which took
us up and down the river to provide us with view of its
shore line. Because of our early start, we scored a spiritual
advantage, as the Ganges is supposed to be more holy as
the sun rises.

Along the bank of the river we saw temples of elaborate
designs interspersed with simpler buildings, many of these
being apartment houses reserved for pilgrims, who are
given free lodging for a brief visit to the Holy City.

At times the scene with the river crowded with boats
and the teeming life — and all lighted by the rays of the
early sun- — reminded us of those of Turner's most spec-
tacular flights of fancy, which also include water, cities,
people and boats, as recorded by him on canvas.

The mortally sick and the dead are often brought to the
bank of the Ganges so that after cremation their ashes can
be dropped into the river, thus insuring a quick trip to
heaven. At one point we were enabled to witness, at a
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buried except for the protruding feet, in a pile of wood,
partly consumed by fire.

Landing at our ghat an hour or so after we had de-
parted, we found many new bathers, as well as holy men
under parasols who for a small fee protect the bather's
valuables. Barbers in a squatting posture were scattered
about. Visitors, many of them from a distance, carried
jugs to be filled with holy water from the river.

As we ascended the ghats to the battery of stairs leading
to the street we discovered that beggars had lined both
sides of these with the worst cases, those most apt to
arouse sympathy, in disorderly display at the top where
we had earlier observed the untouchables cleaning. The
prone figure of a man held my attention. Covered by a
blanket except for his head and a bare arm he wore a
pained expression and appeared half dead, as swarms of
flies crawled about his face and over his arm. Was this a
neglected man on the point of death or a piece of weird
showmanship, calculated to wring money from the un-
wary? We shall never know. Possibly this prone figure
with the questions that it suggests to the Western mind
may act as a gruesome symbol of one side of Indian life,
the one in which the Westerner sees but dark recesses.

The reader will probably appreciate the fact that we left
the Holy City of Benaras with its sacred river without gain-
ing a sense of purification. From this we draw a con-
clusion.

We need only read the Indian Chakravorty's enthusi-
astic account of the sights encountered in the area we had
just visited to realize that these are seen in vastly different
lights by the Easterner and the Westerner, for these two
truly live in different worlds as far as their value-systems
and aspirations are concerned.

INDIA'S CAPITAL AND THE TAJ MAHAL

Delhi
In New Delhi we find a city strikingly different from
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of sacred cows with a greater number of the more prac-
tical water buffalo, which are kept more confined. The
part that the British played in the creation of New Delhi
will be covered, later.

Delhi is in the northern portion of India. Except for
the older parts of the city, the visitor from the south is
struck by the lighter skins of its inhabitants, this having
been true even before the great influx of light Hindu
refugees from Pakistan. We witnessed a group of school
girls, possibly 200, in identical costumes marching by;
and, as this was downtown, concluded that they were on
their way to an historical monument. A careful observa-
tion failed to show a single dark face by Indian standards.
This is certainly too remarkable a situation to account for
by coincidence, caste involving segregation no doubt being
responsible.

Delhi is a city which has been built and rebuilt or added
to, with a minimum number given as eight, the last being
New Delhi.

The citizens of Delhi claim that it has the highest living
standards in India. Some of this may be due to its having
become India's capital. Moving in the direction of social-
ism, the Government supports innumerable bureaucrats,
housed in a great array of new, two-story apartment struc-
tures.

In the older portion of Delhi we found ourselves occa-
sionally back among the familiar sights of India, though
the dilapidated areas appeared to be less extensive.

Agra

Agra is a rather small town. Here a number of the
great Moguls made their homes, though Delhi remained
the Imperial Capital. The greatest of these Moslem rulers
was Akbar (1555-1606) who rose above the narrowness
of Mohammedanism to try to establish a just and univer-
sally acceptable state. He met with some success; suffering
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by their culture, his successors failed; so that the dream
of Akbar was short-lived.

The Taj Mahal is found on a river bank not far from
Agra. It was conceived by one of India's great Mogul
rulers, Shah Jahan, as a mausoleum for the remains of his
wife. In this respect it was not typically Indian, for Hindus
cremate bodies. Nor is its architecture typical of the land;
students have discovered the influence of the architecture
of Persia, of Egyptian mosques, and even of Moorish
Spain.

Shah Jahan had several designs prepared by architects
from Turkey, Persia, and Arabia. The chief architect was
Mohamad Isa Afandi of Turkey, and the chief engineer
was from Agra. Construction began in 1631, and approxi-
mately 20,000 men were employed for 22 years.

Comparing the Taj Mahal with Hindu temples, one
discovers that its whole spirit is different for they, like
Indian painting, are apt to fail in unity, while the Taj
Mahal is grasped in its full force at once.

The Taj Mahal may be likened to a poem which has
found form in stone. Seen even by daylight, it has the
quality of a beautiful dream. No doubt its being built of
white marble contributes to this effect. The grounds are
so laid out that the paths, pools of water, and most of the
planting help lead the eye to the main edifice. But we
discovered an incongruous note, one which I am sure that
its planners would not approve. This was a large patch of
red flowers. Beautiful in themselves, they were out of
place. Should the planting be limited to the lighter shades
of blue, white, or pastel colors, the effect would be more
in keeping with the dream-like quality of the Taj Mahal,
thus adding to the unity of the great masterpiece with its
surroundings, to a feeling that the spectator was in the
midst of a dream world.

If we take the Taj Mahal as a symbol of aspiring India,
one that we of the West can appreciate, and providing we
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is not truly representative of the vast majority of the people
who inhabit the area. True, laborers of their type erected
the building but the conception was quite foreign to them,
for it sprang from the minds of races to which they do
not belong.

AN ESTIMATE OF THE INDIAN PEOPLE

India's climate is predominantly tropical, tending to dis-
courage both physical and mental activity over much of
the year. Aside from the far north, there is little to inter-
fere with free communication. Yet even in the more open
portions of the north and south, considerable differences
in the intellectual climate are found. These, we attribute
primarily to race.

The racial background of India is complex. Let us
assume, as does Sir Arthur Keith, that Dravidians repre-
sent a racial as well as a linguistic group and that this
group is the basic race of India. Though related to the
primitive Australoids, Dravidians are more evolved. A
few Mediterranean Whites have settled in the southwest,
while Mongolians have infiltrated the northeastern area
and a Negrito type is found, usually confined to jungle
lands. But it was the Aryans who profoundly changed
India when they penetrated the land from the northwest;
and this is true even though their number was not sufficient
in itself to account for their great effect.

India achieved her greatness only after the Aryan in-
cursion, and from then on this factor should always be
reckoned with, for studies have shown that India's lighter
elements (her racially Aryanized groups) have larger
brains and rate higher in intelligence than pure Dravidians.
Yet this latter group are not without talent.

In the valley of the Indus, possibly as early as 3000
B.C., a people who were probably Dravidians had devel-
oped the mechanics of civilization. Archaeologists have
found brick houses with bathrooms. These are clustered
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by elaborate drainage systems. Irrigation was practiced in
rural areas. Such accomplishments suggest ingenuity and
a capacity for industry, but we maintain that higher powers
are not necessarily implied.

India's history does not emerge with clarity till the sixth
century, B.C. There is evidence that great empires rose
and fell earlier; the period, however, cannot be clearly
deciphered, for a sense of time or history had not de-
veloped.

Though Dravidians had become more advanced in
sedentary pursuits than pastoral Aryans, it was the latter
who developed the ideas on which a higher civilization
could be built. Let us see how an Indian puts this. Sisir-
kumar Mitra tells us that the great King Bharata extended
the Aryan influence over a vast territory and knit different
parts of the country together through the dynamic influ-
ence of Aryan ideals.

The Rig Veda, a product of Aryans which has become
a sacred book for Hinduism, is in the form of a lengthy
poem. It expresses attitudes and feelings typical of North-
landers.

Percival Griffiths shows that the Aryans had conceived
of the gods as Bright Ones while Dravidian gods had been
frequently malevolent and blood-hungry. He tells us that
Hinduism has had to descend to a lower level to conquer
all of India. Dravidians had been fierce and cruel, ex-
tremely superstitious, and never became completely Ary-
anized, culturally.

The Indian people are industrious. We observed them
on a number of construction jobs where practically all was
done manually, and the work was carried forward with
dispatch. In the hand crafts Indians show both energy and
patience.

Till she gained her recent independence, India had never
been ruled democratically, though in the Aryanized north-
west comparatively short lived attempts were made to
establish republics based on a strictly limited franchise. It
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power. Aside from this period, the average Indian lived
under governments whether their sway was vast or limited,
that ranged from moderate to despotic.

The Moguls ruled parts of India for several centuries
and for a time, before the collapse of their power in the
eighteenth century, they had consolidated most of it; when
the East Indian Company began to assume power the land
had been in a state of turmoil for half a century with rival
leaders in armed conflict.

The fact that a western commercial company succeeded
in imposing order in a country the size of India represents
one of the amazing facts of history. In this accomplish-
ment the British had, for a time, the added task of out-
maneuvering and defeating European rivals including the
French, Dutch, and Portugese.

How is India succeeding with democracy? Pakistan, as
mentioned, has broken away from the central government
divesting it of some 90,000,000 inhabitants, who now live
under a dictatorship.

Many Indians are convinced that the bureaucracy has
become so large that it is unwieldy; charges are frequently
made that it is arbitrary and corrupt and that Nehru can-
not correct these conditions. One reason for the excessive
number of bureaucrats is that educated Indians will not
seek employment in occupations which they believe might
reduce their status. Since clerical jobs with the govern-
ment do not fall in this class, the pressure to increase their
number is constant.

If democracy fails in India some form of absolutism
will take over. Will such be of the right or left? There are
powerful factors at work in India that pull in both direc-
tions, for Indians are extremely proud of their culture and
anxious to preserve it, which could best be done with a
rightist government. On the other hand, Communists are
showing their usual skill at exploiting discontentment.

What of the future of the caste system in India? If the
country develops a rightist government, I believe that it
will end by preserving that part based on color. The left-

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leaning government has not, to date, been able to do away
with color castes; as against trade castes, they have a basic
reason for being. Even should India go Communist it may
not (assuming it could) abolish this biological aspect, for
we find that in spite of their preaching the Soviets permit
discrimination in their eastern provinces.

Monists would have us believe that social solidarity
leads to efficiency, in spite of the fact that this idea was
tested by the Bolsheviks, and found wanting. Their at-
tempts to create a classless society brought on such dis-
organization and disaster that it lasted for less than a
generation. The caste society of India has survived for
thousands of years.

The pluralistic Hindus have shown greater adaptability
in intellectual fields than Moslems, and it was they who
readily absorbed English political thought. Moslems, being
bound by dogmas, fell behind; and though they produced
a few able individuals who aspired to leadership, the group
remained intractable for a considerable time.

Occasionally the practice has been followed of looking
to the social insects to see what light their systems throw
on ours; as they have had the advantage of a vastly longer
time under organized societies. We discover that their
most highly evolved societies are the most dominated by
caste systems, divisions being more numerous and pro-
nounced.

As stated, we consider the brown stocks of Egypt and
India members of the same race. They have striking
psychological similarities. Now for a few of these. Both
are friendly; both have developed the art of painlessly
extracting coins from tourists as gratuities and though this
is but a detail it has significance as an indication of basic
characters. Both groups tolerate filth. Where opportuni-
ties present themselves, both are addicted to graft. Both
are mechanically gifted and have ability as builders. Is it
simply coincidence that both fell under the sway of abso-
lute leaders who employed their talents to construct some
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through the ages? "Priests" of The New Mythology ex-
plain these similarities on the basis of one group learning
from the other. We do not deny that some of this influ-
ence may have occurred in spite of the distance of Egypt
from India. But then, why did not Negroes, who are next
door to Egypt, acquire her civilization? A transfer of
knowledge between these adjacent areas should have been
comparatively easy.

What if anything have Indians gained biologically from
thousands of years of civilization? Such a question obvi-
ously leads to speculative realms. Yet I believe that we
can offer some evidence, though it be slight. We found the
Indians great builders at the dawn of civilization, being a
group biologically adapted to work. But under the intense
pressures brought about by an increasing population we
may assume that those most fitted for work left the most
progeny. For a tropical people they are amazingly indus-
trious; that is, where questions of status are not involved.

A quiet campaign to belittle the British period of rule
in India is being carried on from Nehru down. In fairness
to Indians it should be pointed out that this is done with-
out rancor, and neither I nor any of the numerous mem-
bers of our party whom I questioned heard expressions of
ill will towards the English. Not only this but a recent poll
conducted in a number of the larger Indian cities asking
which nationality Indians liked best came up with the re-
markable answer, "The English". I say remarkable in the
light of the contrast with African Negroes, especially those
of the Congo, who have turned against their former rulers
and show this with expressions of hatred. But with the
Indians we are dealing with a relatively superior group.
No doubt they have gained some of the qualities — spiritu-
ally — which they claim for their civilization, helping them
to arise above petty irritations. Though we do not believe
that Indians suffered under British rule, wielders of power
make enemies even if they are wise and benevolent. In-
dians have obviously taken this into consideration in their
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attempt to bolster their morale — they may not always be
entirely objective as we shall now see.

Indians are wont to compare progress under British rule
with goals which theoretically they might have reached
independently, and a number of Western writers follow
this rule. Indians paid for English administration, but we
may ask if the price was excessive.

Due to the fact that the impact of the British was felt
throughout a great part of the East we shall sum up their
accomplishments in a later chapter when we shall be in a
position to gain a broader view.

I met a few Caucasians sufficiently acquainted with In-
dians to have learned their private opinions. They had
found that some Indians wish that the English were still in
control. This fact is easily understood on the part of the
well-to-do who prefer the former stability; but other In-
dians of modest station believe that they were freer under
the English. It may be that the number of these groups is
not sufficient to be of political significance.

The Monuments of India

During our stay in India we visited so many temples,
shrines, mosques, fortresses, and palaces that listing them
would become monotonous. Many others, we did not see.
The over-all impression is of a tremendous outlay of human
energy, for all of these structures were built without the
benefit of modern equipment or techniques. As in Egypt,
the transportation of the building material alone repre-
sented huge undertakings.

Many of the great buildings erected by the Moguls have
been stripped of easily transportable treasures. We were
assured that one of these had ceilings of silver, and we saw
its marble walls inlaid with semi-precious stones, now
mostly gone. In another place we observed whole walls
of marble perforated in such elaborate patterns that they
resemble lace on a gigantic scale, and most of these fine
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ably had been elaborate gardens with fountains from which
perfumed waters played.

India as a Civilization

As one of the first areas to become civilized, India in-
terests us. Further, she has the richness that springs from
diversity. India never experienced any great drive towards
oneness such as inhibited the free play of intellectual
processes during the Dark Ages of the West. But why
India's good fortune?

The monistic thinkers of India have tended to seek inner
peace. Though they are not dynamic, their attitude has
not reacted on all of society, allowing individual Indians
an opportunity to explore infinity.

India's high birth rate beclouds her future. Immediately
after our visit the acting Home Minister announced that
the total population is 438 million, an increase of 80
million during the last 10 years. Her leaders recognize
the danger from ever mounting numbers but have not been
able to do much to change the situation.

SOUTHEASTERN ASIANS
Bangkok
We shall skim lightly over our excursions into Nepal, our
stay in Ceylon, and visit in Singapore.

Katmandu is the capital of Nepal, a small independent
country on the northeastern border of India. Many Budd-
hist refugees from Tibet have settled there; among these
we saw a Mongolian boy of about 15 with auburn hair and
hazel eyes.

In Colombo, capital of Ceylon, we encountered a con-
siderable number of works of art in temples indicating a
preference for fair complexions. This evidence was re-
enforced by commercial signs showing people far lighter
than the average for the area. No doubt we had seen as
many similiar indications of a preference for fair skins in
India, but in Ceylon they were more concentrated, creat-

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ing a greater impression on the mind. Ceylon has relatively
light as well as dark elements, and I hope to be able to
write about their relations at some future time after more
study on the ground.

Singapore is a prosperous city, now preponderantly
Chinese. It has a school exclusively for Chinese children.
Due either to Chinese exclusiveness or mutual consent, the
Indians of Singapore have their own section. In a Buddhist
temple we found carved and painted figures shown with
skins fully as light as average for Caucasians, though with
a more yellowish cast.

Thailand was formerly known as Siam. It is found in
southeastern Asia, on a great area of land jutting into the
South China Sea and lies east of Burma and west of Indo
China, having an estimated population of 25,000,000 with
some 3,500,000 being Chinese or of Chinese descent.
Bangkok is the capital city. It is located on the east bank
of the Menam Chao Phya river, 25 miles above the head
of the gulf of Siam on relatively level land criss-crossed by
hundreds of canals, large and small.

In the newer portions of Bangkok are found modern
buildings. The city is remarkably uneven in outward
aspect; next to one of considerable height may be seen
small and dilapidated structures. Touring the city, one
may suddenly pass from shacks to fine residences; then
abruptly back to inferior buildings. We discovered a
jewelry store next an iron worker's establishment.

The streets of Bangkok are congested with traffic. We
did not see any animal drawn vehicles; but not all are
modern. Four wheeled street cars, painted red and yellow,
still traverse the downtown area, while three wheeled cabs,
quite small, cruise about.

In Bangkok is to be seen a great variety of clothing, most
of it patterned after Western styles, with the flowing robes
of India almost never in evidence.

Bangkok has a fairly extensive Chinatown. Its build-
ings are mostly several stories high and of more interesting
and varied designs than those of the rest of the city.

We visited the temples, grounds, and buildings of the
Wat Po, their great expanse being surrounded by a high
wall. Passing through its gate we left the everyday world
to enter a dreamland of Oriental splendor. For sheer visual
excitement, I have never encountered anything that equals
what here may be seen. Building upon building lavishly
ornamented in relief or finished in bright color schemes are
interspersed with spires reaching to the sky. Thrown in
for contrast are similar forms in miniature so that as we
move about we are presented with a veritable orchestra-
tion of forms and colors, as fine in its way as anything
found in musical tones. This richness is helped by an oc-
casional Ming tree or row of them, never more than 20
feet high, but each, by trimming carved into several separ-
ate ball forms, providing a further element of surprise, their
softness and roundness setting off by contrast the sur-
rounding world of masonry.

While it is no doubt the great spires which set the spirit
soaring, they need the temples with their more horizontal
lines for a steadying influence. Yet the slanting roofs of
these, often of elaborate design, may prove a pleasing tran-
sition to nearby spires. Temple roofs are in themselves
things of beauty — covered with glazed flat tile, sometimes
of golden orange hue with green borders; elsewhere, green
tile may prevail with orange as the border; again, the
colors may be brown or red.

In a court, but under its roofed walls, we saw 244 larger
than life statues of Buddha finished in gold leaf. By way
of contrast, that afternoon we were to see 52 black
Buddhas at another Po. These were slightly smaller than
life. As we still held the golden Buddhas fresh in our
minds, the striking difference was very effective.

Back at the Wat Po, we visited the temple of the reclin-
ing Buddha. This gigantic figure finished in gold leaf is
over 150 feet long and some 44 feet high. Though the
figure is the object of principal interest in this temple, the
surrounding interior is elaborately decorated but in quiet
tones.

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We left the Wat Po to travel by car to the Marble Palace.
It is a blend of Oriental styles of a unified design, great
variety being afforded by step-downs to each side. Each of
these has a separate roof covered with golden colored
glazed tile, furnishing a brilliant opposition to the white
marble of the walls of the building.

The people of Bangkok seen following our visit in Sing-
apore appeared quite dark. This difference, of course, is
due to the fact that the Chinese constitute the great major-
ity of Singapore, while the indigenous people of the trop-
ical area of Thailand represent the larger element in that
land. But as our eyes became accustomed to the new group
we saw that it had many light elements; some of these be-
ing Chinese, but others, as we discovered, were Thai-
landers, doubtless descendants of people who infiltrated
the area from the north at some earlier period.

Most of the inhabitants of the lands directly south of
China, including those of Thailand, belong to a sub-race,
a part of the Mongolian complex of races. Their brains
are smaller than those of the Chinese and their skins are
darker.

I did not find an opportunity to discuss color preferences
with Thailanders. In the dining room of our hotel was a
mural painting depicting Thailanders with skins fully as
light as the average for Caucasians.

There are marked temperamental differences between
the Chinese and Thailanders. As an example, the Thai-
lander cannot match the Chinaman in the realm of busi-
ness nor is he equal to him as a worker. Though a part of
this situation may be due, as environmentalists would
claim, to cultural factors, more deepseated reasons are
operative.

The Chinaman is not only the product of his pre-
civilized biological heritage but he has lived for thousands
of years under an intensively competitive civilization. In
this respect his history has been similar to that of the
Indian and the results similar; in both cases, misfits have

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been largely eliminated. On the other hand, life has been
far easier for Thailanders over their developmental period.
Fish and game have abounded; the climate demands little
in the way of clothing or shelter. Thailanders are not so
well adapted by selection to take a place in the modern
world on a competitive basis.

With two related but differing groups occupying the
same land, we might expect that some interesting situations
would develop, and this turns out to be the case.

The Chinese have formed an estimate of the natives.
That they consider themselves and their culture superior
is attested by many facts, including the apartness which
they maintain. We heard on good authority that they sel-
dom marry outside of their own group. On the other hand,
Thailanders fear the Chinese as competitors and are trying
to prevent more of them from entering the country. We
were assured by an intelligent Indonesian living in
Bangkok that the Chinese have developed a sense of in-
security due to the fact that they are not sure of their
future. In some areas of the East they have suffered from
severe restrictions or, in a few cases, have been expelled.

Few people come in contact with the native Thailanders
without being charmed by them, for they have the win-
ning qualities of nice children. They are clean and cheer-
ful and respect the rights of others. We saw but few beg-
gars. Our Indonesian friend told us that with respect to
the arts Thailanders are perfectionists and throw their
whole souls into such undertakings.

Thailanders are opposed to Communism; the threat of
its invasion or subversion from the north is constant. With
the aid of the Chinese in their midst and a rich land, they
have developed a prosperous economy.

We took a trip by launch along the river and through
some of Bangkok's canals. The principal one which we
traveled is gracefully curved, affording changing vistas of
tropical vendure. Occasionally the undergrowth would
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wooded recesses: then we would come to areas of homes,
usually built on stilts so as to be a few feet above the
canal, each house constructed in the style preferred by its
owner, and seldom painted.

In the settled areas the canals are filled with boats.
These vary from those no larger than a skiff to fair sized
launches, with many styles represented, crafts with turned
up ends being the most popular; many were small market
boats, with their proprietors paddling them. Most of these
are filled with fruit or vegetables, clean and attractively
displayed, while other crafts offered all manner of mer-
chandise, including live ducks.

But pleasure crafts are to be seen. A fast launch filled
with natives overhauled us; cut its speed to afford its occu-
pants a better look at us; then several small girls in a
canoe came paddling by, stealing glances in our direction.
Past the worst congestion, bathing children greeted us. A
woman stood in breast deep water, washing her hair.

Thailand is predominantly Buddhist in belief. We un-
derstood that there are some 300,000 priests of this faith,
with some 20,000 young novices taking three-month
courses in Buddhism. If employed, their employers must
stand the expense of this training; if not, they depend on
friends, relatives, or even strangers for support. Only a
few novices become priests.

The government of Thailand is based on a limited
monarchy. We were told that there is a great deal of graft
in government circles and that our "economic aid" is
probably helping to enrich the few.

HONG KONG
Hong Kong is a British Crown Colony. Physically, it is
more than a single city, with Victoria located on the Hong
Kong Island, which was ceded to the British by the Chinese
in 1841. A portion of the nearby Kowloon Peninsular was
also ceded to Britain in 1860 and to acquire some back
country and further room to expand the British, in 1898,
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a period of 99 years. We shall refer to these combined
areas as Hong Kong.

Hong Kong has grown in ten years from a city of
approximately 600,000 to its present population of more
than 3,000,000; this rapid expansion being due primarily
to a steady influx of refugees from Red China. Though
vast housing projects have been built there are still
numerous shanty areas occupied by refugees.

From our docked ship we had a commanding view of
the harbor with its ceaseless activity as ships of all sizes
and types plied its waters. To our south stood the moun-
tainous island of Victoria, some 1,500 feet high, with
buildings climbing for some distance up its abrupt side
while above these in a profusion of evergreen foliage are
scattered fine residences and apartment buildings. Our
view of this area was at once spacious and intimate.

To the west stretched the great expanse of the harbor
with a veritable flotilla of anchored ships finally losing
themselves in the haze. To the east lies the city with a
newer portion running to the north. In this area are to be
found a great number of apartment houses built for
refugees. They make an impressive sight as they are
viewed. as vistas; many of the streets running from the
downtown area to the hills.

The portions of Hong Kong devoted to attracting trade
with Caucasians are clean; the native quarters are apt to
be untidy with the sidewalks covered with litter. A few of
the stores in this area that handle edibles also have 3 or 4
chickens which run free searching for food dropped from
delivery trucks. In the native stores not an inch of display
space is wasted.

The Chinese of Hong Kong vary considerably in color-
ing, with the lighter elements dominating, numerically. I
shall say a few words about this variation among Mon-
golians in a later chapter. Most of the Hong Kong Chinese
appear to have long rather than round heads.

Western garb is worn almost exclusively by business

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men and appears to prevail among workers; women wear
the ancient type of clothing.

Because of its proximity to Red China, opinions differ
widely with respect to the future of Hong Kong. Following
are a few of these. A Chinese businessman told me that
the Reds would never be able to take over the city because
of starvation conditions in their home land. Another was
of the opinion that since Hong Kong as a trading center
affords Red China advantages she will not have if she
acquires it, she will not disturb the present situation. I
offer the following in more detail because I consider the
merchant who gave me the information the most intelli-
gent and best informed of any of the Chinese with whom
I talked. I was told by him that the rich Chinese from
the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Islands of the
South Pacific believe that Hong Kong has the most stable
government and economy of any area available to them,
and because of this they have been flocking into the city.
Let me point to the fact, in passing, that the stability so
highly prized by the Chinese is not a product of Oriental
culture or character but rather is imposed on the city by
an alien race, the British.

I asked my merchant friend if his people were not afraid
that Red China would take over the area. In reply he told
me that the newcomers apparently are not. As he spoke
he pointed to a large building being erected across the
street and informed me that it was being financed by rich
Chinese from overseas, now living in Hong Kong. He
added that those of us who have watched developments
from the first are adopting a different attitude, for most of
this group who have property are trying to sell it, there
being several places under British rule to which they can
go. This merchant told me that most residents of Hong
Kong feel that Red China will not move to take over the
city sooner than 5 to 10 years due to the fact that it is
anticipated that it will take them that long to become suffi-
ciently well organized to do so.

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ments: the influx of a group seeking employment and
another with capital and know-how, seeking profitable
undertakings. It is this combination that is working magic
in the city for it has been remarkably successful at meeting
its unprecedented challenges. Nor should we confine such
activities to the Chinese; American and other capital is
being invested in Hong Kong to take advantage of low
taxes and wages. As a result of all of this Hong Kong is
developing into a great and thriving metropolis. Without
natural resources she must depend on the ability and
energy of her people.

We took a trip up the peninsula and from a hilltop
looked into Red China. At the bottom of the hill was a
small river which marked the border line while on the
other side was a wide valley with a small village directly
in front of us, but too far away to permit us to observe
signs of life. Across the valley, low hills rose to the
horizon.

After our view of Red China, we proceeded on a great
arc on our way back to Hong Kong. All level land is
intensely cultivated. In an area of streams and many
ponds, ducks are raised. Finally, our road began to skirt
a portion of the great shelter water area, a commingling
of sea and land such as abounds in the Hong Kong region.

A haze was gathering over the seascape as we stopped
to admire a scene. In the foreground were strewn great
dark boulders. Offshore, a group of junks with sails set
were in bold relief against a back drop of shimmering
silver, a commingling of sea and sky.

THE BRITISH AND THE FAR EAST

The history of the British in the East shows that brilliantly
successful moves can usually be traced to the imagination,
intelligence, and initiative of outstanding individuals. But
without the qualities of British character, the ability of its
great men to avoid a Napoleonic complex, and the willing-
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these great accomplishments would not have been possible.

When Britain could not find qualified individuals for her
overseas service as colonial administrators, usually British
character has sufficed, though occasionally dull and obsti-
nate men have complicated the problem of British admin-
istration. But it has been British character, with its demand
for justice, that made it possible for a relatively small
group of people to rule a large part of the world over a
comparatively extended time.

Those indoctrinated with the ideas of The New Myth-
ology will challenge the idea that the British were just.
"Justice" for this group has taken on a new meaning. They
no longer equate it with fairness and honesty but rather
identify it with an extreme and morbid interest in human
misfits. If the rest of the world is forced by any means
whatever to adapt itself to the demands and shortcomings
of misfits, this to the tender-minded zealot for The New
Mythology is justice. Evaluated exclusively from this view-
point, the British administration in the East left much to
be desired. Taking a broader and more rational view, we
come up with very different conclusions. If the future can
free itself from the delusions and false aims of The New
Mythology, it may come to regard the period of British rule
in the East as one of the better times for those areas.

Could the British duplicate their accomplishments in the
East today? As we proceed, I shall show that not only do
we need a basically superior group to realize great aspira-
tions, but also a sound ideology. Even assuming that the
East had not changed, we may be certain that the British,
under the tenets of The New Mythology, have become so
emasculated that they would fail.

As a by-product of the long British regime in the East,
English has become a secondary language over a large part
of this area. English language papers are printed in all of
the major cities we visited. Many book stores are liberally
stocked with books printed in English. In these ways
Western ideas both good and bad are penetrating the East
at an accelerated pace.

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The decision of the British to teach English in the ad-
vanced schools of India rather than Sanskrit put Indians
in contact with the true liberal thought of England, as well
as with radical beliefs, and hastened the revolution. Not
only this but it provided educated Indians with an oppor-
tunity to follow current developments, particularly in the
field of science.

Many of the cities of the East either owe their very
existence or their present form to the vision of the British.
Let us begin with Hong Kong. Before it was acquired by
Britain, the island had been occupied by a small fishing
population. Singapore was developed due to the vision of
Sir Stamford Raffles. New Delhi, as opposed to Delhi
proper, was planned by two of Britain's best known archi-
tects, Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker, at the
request of the British who carried out its development.
Bombay might have remained little more than a town
bordering on mud flats had not the British built great
docks nearby.

The ideas on which the new governments of Eastern
lands are based were borrowed from the West. The pro-
found impact of the West in the fields of government,
science, education, and technology is everywhere in evi-
dence.

The more direct impact of the British on a person to
person basis cannot be evaluated. We shall later say some-
thing of the impact of the Caucasian as it has changed
ideas of human beauty.

CONCERNING THE JAPANESE

The last foreign country we visited was Japan. Therefore
what it had to offer had to compete in our minds with
the best of other lands, and except for tourist accommoda-
tions and technological progress, it usually came out
second. Its garden spots are not up to those of the Canary
Islands. The temples which we visited could not match
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under the influence of the West, have been adverse to
paint and as their tile roofs are generally of a dull metallic
grey, many scenes are monotonous or drab. But our pic-
ture is too bleak. Let us therefore remark on some
pleasanter aspects.

Coming from the heat of the tropics, the cool breezes
of Japan greeted us with soft caresses which elevated our
spirits. In the mountain fastnesses near Fujiama we were
charmed by a quaint hotel that spoke of ancient times.
After a night in which the wind audibly tore about our
rooms, we set out for a nearby lake to gain a view of
this famous mountain. But we were struck with what
must have been a typhoon, for the rain fell in such sheets
that we could scarcely see the lake almost at our feet and
never caught as much as a glimpse of the mountain at
its far shore.

That afternoon, the storm having abated, we set out
with our nice Japanese companions, our chauffeur and
coed guide, for Tokyo, over 100 miles away. After a
descent from the mountains, we traveled a highway skirt-
ing the sea. This trip I shall never forget. A wind aloft
carried great clouds from out of the east. Mighty waves
rolled towards us from unfathomable distances to break
into forward rushing walls enveloped in white spray and
foam, while nature, in changing vistas, presented us with
exhibitions of her might.

Because the Japanese people are among the ablest in
the East and our lack of other interests, let us now con-
centrate on them and certain aspects of their civilization.

Japan's small area and large population is responsible
for a severe struggle simply to survive. The island is
approximately the size of California, though only about
16% of its surface is suitable for agriculture. Nor has it
much in the way of mineral wealth. But in spite of these
facts it supports a population of more than 90,000,000.
The Japanese government is actively helping its people
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Bureau, an agency of the government, is doing an excellent
job of attracting tourists and making their stay pleasant.
Many of its guides are college students, and some of these
are outstanding individuals.

Japan frankly faces the fact that her people are not
innately equal, and gains a great deal thereby. While we
waste time and money trying to make first class minds
out of second class material, the Japanese make their
college entrance examinations so severe that only the able
can pass them. This brings to the fore those of a very
high I. Q., who find little difficulty in acquiring an ad-
vanced education.

Many college graduates seek employment with Japan's
great industrial firms. These, in their turn, call for com-
petitive examinations. No doubt it is the high calibre of
the men who enter into the managerial field that has made
these concerns so successful.

The inhabitants of today's Japan are by no means uni-
form in type, for Japan has been principally peopled by
a number of related Mongolian sub-races. The indigenous
people are believed to have been considerably more primi-
tive than were later settlers. In case the original group
was the Ainu, they may not have been Mongolian, or only
partly so. No doubt this variety of types is one of the
reasons for the wide variation in coloring, running from
those with skin as fair as that of the average Caucasian
to those who are almost brown. Also, there may be other
factors working in this situation. Japan, a northern land,
may offer advantages to lighter skins on a survival basis.
This kind of selection could also apply to the mainland,
accounting for some of the differences of coloring encoun-
tered among the Chinese of Hong Kong.

The instances which we found in art and advertising
media of a preference for lighter coloring are too numerous
to allow of listing. There is some indication that this
preference is of long standing, though it appears to have
been intensified by contact with Westerners. Types re-
sembling Caucasians are featured as actors and at least

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some Japanese are resorting to plastic surgery to acquire
a more Western appearance.

The American Embassy provided me with the oppor-
tunity of meeting a Caucasian born in Japan of American
parents. He was about 55 years old and thoroughly
imbued with Japanese culture. The following facts were
derived from this source.

In answer to a question about the different physical
types found in Japan, he said that though these are a
matter of common knowledge it has been the government's
policy, till lately, to stress the belief that the Japanese
are a homogeneous group.

The two types most commonly seen are the relatively
taller, with long heads and oval faces, and the shorter,
rounder of head, face, and body. The more linear type
are sometimes identified with the Japanese aristocracy;
the rounder with its peasantry. Our generalization with
respect to types and status is a broad one to which there
are many exceptions.

Whence came these types? It is my belief that the
rounder group may have had their origin in the Malay,
while the more linear group probably came from the Asian
mainland, this estimate being based on the present inhabit-
ants of these areas.

I was told that, though the taller type is presented as
mannequins and otherwise idealized, it is not known
whether this greatly influenced sexual selection — a com-
plicating fact being that most marriages are arranged by
parents.

The opportunity was afforded me to have lunch with
a graduate student of Social Anthropology from one of
Tokyo's universities. I found her thoroughly indoctrinated
with The New Mythology but so interested in gaining new
viewpoints that I was kept busy answering her questions.
In reply to a question by me she said that since their
defeat the Japanese no longer have any pride in their race;
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inferior to themselves. She said that she was not in a
position to form an opinion on this subject.

Most people in Japan consider Buddhism to be the
prevailing religion. At the same time there is a great
ferment of beliefs among university students. One of these,
who referred to herself as a humanist, said of Buddhism
that it is no more than a devotion to empty forms. Shinto-
ism, which is not a religion in the western sense but which
teaches the manly virtues, appears to be enjoying some-
thing of a revival.

Biologically each individual, male or female, is a mixture
of masculine and feminine qualities. Some men are more
masculine than others; and some women are more femi-
nine. Does this principle of variation also apply to races?
I believe it does, and that the Japanese are the most femi-
nine of important peoples. Their biological nature is a
factor in determining their psychological character.

Historically the men of Nippon have cultivated the
manly arts, Shintoism being helpful in developing these.
No doubt as an instance of over-compensation, they have
often been barbarously cruel.

Are the Japanese a profound people? Certainly they
are gifted and we need have no doubts about their capacity
to master modern technology. But does this imply great-
ness? I do not believe that it does. But greatness, as is
the case with most descriptive terms, must be understood
relatively. Contrasted with Negroes, the Japanese show
greatness. Compared with Western Caucasians, they
emerge in a different light, for they have produced but
a scanty crop of eminent men and no truly great ones.

The criticism may be made that Japan's culture is so
foreign to that of other groups that these have failed to
recognize her great men. This objection fails in the light
of the fact that the whole civilized world is acquainted
with the name of Confucius and most of it believes that
he was great. And though the Chinese philosopher Lao-tze
may not quite qualify on the basis of an international
reputation, his brilliant but erratic mind is universally

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recognized by scholars. His beliefs have been incorpo-
rated into a system known as Taoism. Further, though
we do not know the names of the Chinese inventors of
gun powder or of paper or printing, these individuals are
worthy of a place in our Hall of Fame, for Gutenburg
has acquired such though not the first to invent printing.

In addition to our rating of individuals, we should point
to the fact that all aspects of the civilization of Japan are
the result of the importation of ideas. Her people have
modified many of these, without demonstrating in the
process any great originality.

From the point of view of the physical anthropologist,
Mongolians, including the Japanese, are less evolved than
are Caucasians, having a larger carry-over of primitive
structures. It is more than conceivable that this applies
on the mental as well as the physical plane.

Except for a minor storm, our trip from Japan to Hono-
lulu was uneventful.

HAWAII AND THE HAWAIIANS

The Hawaiian Islands give America a state with some of
the world's most beautiful tropical islands; their scenery is
so well known that we need not describe it here. Not so
well known are the facts about the biological drama being
enacted in our new domain. The many articles and books
dealing with its race relations are so strongly influenced by
the New Mythology as to give the impression that all of
its races will soon be mixed and that this outcome is de-
sirable.

I believe most of my readers know that the crossing of
races is an unsound practice. For those unacquainted with
the facts, I shall give the briefest of summaries.

A first crossing may show hybrid vigor, but subsequent
generations develop all manner of defects. So-called race
prejudice is an almost universal manifestation, with most
animal species affected by it. The feeling calling for apart-
ness is the natural means of preventing the degradation of
higher forms of life.

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One of the false impressions given by mainland publi-
cations is that the major races in Hawaii are already
extensively mixed. This is not true, though, as we shall
see, pure blooded native Hawaiians (Polynesians, by race)
have virtually disappeared, having merged with a mongrel-
ized group. Why did this happen? .

The White man has carried such prestige that during
periods of exploration and early settlement he found little
difficulty in securing concubines among the dark skinned
races and later wives as these lands became more civilized.
This situation enabled careless adventurers, the shiftless,
and older men to secure young brides. All of these factors
have been operative with respect to Hawaiians of Poly-
nesian descent. Also, the Chinese and some other groups,
before women of their own race were available, frequently
married natives.

What is the present state of race relations in the islands?
In ordinary occupations the superficial observer may find
little discrimination, though I understand there is some.
Our principal interest will be in social relationships that
might lead to intermarriage.

I was provided with an opportunity of observing a
wedding banquet given for a young Chinese couple. It
was held at a large Chinese restaurant. The room where
the banquet was staged seated 500 and it was full. So few
Caucasians were in evidence that I estimated them at about
2%, though the head waiter thought that they might be
5 % . Even his estimate is so small as to suggest that they
were business rather than social friends.

As Chinese and Japanese belong to the same major race,
both being Mongolians, racial antipathy should be limited
or non-existent. Since Chinese and Japanese names are
distinguishable and as a number of guests were introduced,
I was able to determine that many of them were of Japa-
nese descent — possibly one-half. There being approxi-
mately five times more Japanese on the island than
Chinese, this fact would not be surprising. From a bio-
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the Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans, of whom there are a
considerable number. Now, more evidence.

Outside of a dancing studio, in large glass-fronted
cabinets, were a number of group pictures of classes of
children, in ages of from about 10 to 15. I was able to
distinguish more than 100 faces, and all of these but 2 were
clearly Caucasian, the 2 possibly being partly Mongolian.

Fashionable society, as reported in the press, is virtually
limited to Caucasians and Mongolians, and judging by the
names of those who attend events, remain segregated,
though our statement might be challenged by concentrat-
ing on occasional exceptions. After all, the islands have
devotees of the New Mythology.

A country club is limited to Caucasians, as is also an
adjacent residential area. The author James Mitchner,
who married a Japanese, was rejected as a purchaser of a
home in this area and was not able to secure a membership
in the country club.

Published figures showing the racial make-up of Hawaii
do not always agree. The following are taken from a
recent study.

Total Number Percent of Total

Japanese 203,455 32.2

Caucasian 202,230 32.0

Filipino 69,070 10.9

Chinese 38,197 6.0

Negro 4,943 0.8

All others 104,292 18.1

What are the standings of these groups? James Mitch-
ner, though a radical, has one of his Polynesian characters
give, in order of descending scale of prestige, those most
favored by God. His rating follows: White, Japanese,
Hawaiians, and finally Negroes. He does not mention the
Filipinos.

The mixed bloods are generally looked down on, at least
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Mitchner. On the other hand, some mongrels defend their
status by becoming priests of the New Mythology.

Before their defeat in World War Two, the Japanese
were among the strictest in preserving their racial heritage.
Since then they have not been so careful.

The business world is dominated by Caucasians, Chi-
nese, and Japanese, as are the professions, which facts
could have been foretold by any competent racist.

The situation found in Hawaii refutes the dogma that
environment is the major factor in developing groups.
Both the Filipinos and the Chinese entered the islands as
immigrant peasants; both groups had similar chances to
advance themselves and their children had equal oppor-
tunities. Though there are almost twice as many Filipinos
as Chinese, the Chinese have easily outstripped the
Filipinos.

A. Grover Day, in a book about the islands, states that
plantation owners, in the early part of the century, im-
ported several thousand Puerto Ricans and that the results
were not happy. I was told by a 25-year resident of the
islands, a man who interests himself in such matters, that
the Filipinos have the worst record with respect to felonies,
especially murder, of any group, and that crime among the
Chinese and Japanese is rare. None of this will surprise
the competent racist.

Our principal concern has been to correct some of the
fallacies spread by radicals; we also recognize that from a
biological viewpoint, conditions in Hawaii are far from
ideal. Aside from the one neighborhood in Honolulu,
residential areas are not segregated. A large private school,
formerly devoted exclusively to Caucasians, has ended
segregation since the war.

We disembarked at Long Beach, California.

SOME OVERALL CONCLUSIONS

Most of the author's views with respect to the countries
visited have been given. Following are some overall con-
clusions.

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Radicals have tried to bring us in line with their projects
by declaring that if we do not follow their leadership
America will be condemned by "world opinion". This idea
is a sheer invention on their part; in connection with com-
plex situations there is no such thing as "world opinion".
True, a small but noisy band of foreign radicals join ours
in attempts to corrupt our beliefs, but the great majority
of normal men in all lands pursue their own interests with-
out concerning themselves with our interests.

The sponsors of the New Mythology threaten those of
us who oppose their programs with endangering "Amer-
ican leadership of the free world". Is this true? In connec-
tion with such "leadership", President Charles de Gaulle
has said: ". . . It is intolerable for a great state to leave
its destiny up to the decisions and actions of another state,
however friendly it may be." Both Nasser and Nehru have
flatly refused to follow programs sponsored by our State
Department, and small wonder, for it has become afflicted
with delusions of grandeur in spite of its amazing record of
unsound decisions and failures. I did not encounter any
interest in the subject of "American leadership" or any
recognition that such exists. The idea springs from the
mind of the radicals who have succeeded in impressing
their beliefs on the State Department and in turn hope that
they can impose them on us, and finally on the world.

Radicals tell us that we must integrate to please dark
skinned races. I found no interest in this subject. This fact
should not surprise us in the case of India. In spite of
protestations by her radicals from Nehru down, India re-
mains the most segregated land in the world, and largely
on a racial basis. In remaining segregated, we are follow-
ing a practice which the vast majority of Indians prefer.
The Chinese in contact with other races, especially with
Negroes, as in Jamaica, maintain strict segregation. The
Japanese up till the time of the Second World War con-
sidered themselves superior to other peoples, and possibly
the majority still do.

But what about Africa? Anyone so devoid of knowl-

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edge and good sense as to recommend that we abandon the
sound program of segregation to please African Negroes is
unworthy of intellectual respect.

Now let us offer some final thoughts about democracy
and education. One of the principal conclusions drawn
from observations made on our trip is that democracy is
on the way out in all the lands that we visited, if indeed,
they have not already lost it, as in Spain and Egypt. Priests
of the New Mythology promote the belief that if adequately
prepared by education, all races have the capacity for self-
government on a democratic basis. This is the major myth
of the New Mythology. Our ancestors made democracy
work because of their innate characters and temperaments,
education playing a minor role. Only those people in-
digenous to northwestern Europe have shown that they
have these qualities. We believe that the peoples of the
East will show even less aptitude for democracy than have
the Latins.

The implications of the failure in the realm of character
on the part of the vast majority of the peoples of the world
is of importance to us, for we are spending billions of
dollars in foreign aid on the assumption that we are pro-
moting democracy. Those lands whose peoples are too
unstable for democracy's requirements face the alternatives
of a dictatorship of the right or the left. As the former
arouses the deep indignation of the priests of the New
Mythology found in our State Department, most of these
being a continuing group of great influence on successive
administrations, and as we are committed to opposition to
Communism, we are obviously headed for trouble. We
sponsor projects aimed at building up the populations and
strengthening the economies of nations whose friendship
we may lose in the one case or who may become our active
enemies in the other. We discover another miscalculation
in this connection: the economies of these lands are grow-
ing at respectable rates but their birth rates are out-
stripping this progress. Until the areas visited discover
means of reducing their birth rate, they will continue with

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a low or decreasing scale of living. We can bleed ourselves
white without permanently benefiting them.

Under the programs sponsored by the priests of the
New Mythology, what is happening to our economy? Be-
cause of our global give-aways, it is slowing down, as we
are frequently reminded by radicals, though they never
admit that these give-aways are playing a part, a major
part, in our poor showing. No longer do we have needed
surplus to invest to keep our economic growth in healthy
expansion.

Let us now turn to other areas of biology to see what
light they throw on our problems. Haskins and others
have shown that social insects as well as higher forms of
life are subject to parasitism. We cite two instances. Cer-
tain ants have been victimized by a species of beetles that
so closely resemble them that once they gain a foothold in
a nest, their hosts, failing to recognize that the parasites
are not proper residents, cannot dislodge them as they do
with other intruders. The nest from then on fails to thrive
and often perishes. Our second instance involves a higher
species than ants, having to do with birds. The European
cuckoo and the American cowbird have become parasites
by way of their nesting habits, for they locate the nests of
other birds, destroy the eggs, substituting their own. The
hatching and rearing of the parasitic young is left to the
hosts. Under the equalistic New Mythology, parasitic hu-
mans need not show greater cleverness than the parasites
mentioned in order to survive and multiply.

Priests of the New Mythology are making an all-out
effort to enslave us by a belief that it is our moral duty to
support misfit races — and this in physical and psychologi-
cal comfort — races which are inherently unfitted to take a
place in the modern world. He who fosters parasitic hu-
man groups is doing an equal harm to the normal members
of humanity as would be the case were he infecting them
with noxious bacteria or other parasites. As there is no
escaping this fact in reason, the promoters of animalistic

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equalism have had to resort to all manner of sophistry to
bolster their degenerate beliefs.

Some philosophers of history believe that history teaches
no lessons. With this, I partly agree. One principle, how-
ever, clearly emerges from experience : beliefs fastened on
groups as "moral" conceptions are extremely difficult to
alter or eradicate. The promoters of the New Mythology
are trying to establish its degrading doctrines — particularly
the worst of its parasitic views — as "moral" principles.

Certainly, the capacity to embrace ideals transcending
narrow self-interest is man's glory. That we of the West
have permitted this spiritual quality to degenerate into a
parasite-saving doctrine, invested with an aura of morality,
is our shame.

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